Arthur Keith
British anatomist and anthropologistWikipedia
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Oct 4, 2026
GueroNARRATOR
As we said, it does not slide down.
GueroNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith describes very graphically the transport of a bolus of food towards the stomach.
GueroNARRATOR
Quote, "The instant that a bolus has been pushed through the doorway leading from the pharynx and that doorway has closed, we see a ring of contraction form behind the bolus and commence to creep slowly downwards, forcing the bolus in front of it.
GueroNARRATOR
The bolus, on entering the esophagus, has touched a button, and the ring of contraction is the result.
20 MINS LATER
GueroNARRATOR
It also became possible to help the white corpuscles in the fray, or spur them on to it, so to speak, by preparing a sort of sauce, an opsonin, the man of science calls it, from dead bacteria and injecting it into the blood.
GueroNARRATOR
The opsonin makes the living bacteria more attractive or palatable to the corpuscles, and our brave defenders go to work more vigorously.
GueroNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith, in The Engines of the Human Body, refers to, quote, the immense and movable armies of microscopic corpuscles which can be mobilized for police or sanitary duties.
GueroNARRATOR
They swarm in the bloodstream as it circulates round the body.
Chris HaslerHOST
It is important to point out that this missing link reference is now an outdated viewpoint.
Chris HaslerHOST
So, where on planet Earth would a 19th century anatomist go to find the missing link? Well, a theory did exist that the place to go was Southern Asia.
Chris HaslerHOST
It was even hypothesised at the time that there could have been a sunken continent once rising above the sea that was the land bridge from India to Madagascar in the west and stretching across the Indian Ocean to Australia in the east.
Chris HaslerHOST
A mysterious continent called Lemuria.
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Chris HaslerHOST
Eugène Dubois died at the age of 82 in the year 1940.
Chris HaslerHOST
Right up until the end, he was just as stubborn as ever.
Chris HaslerHOST
In an obituary notice published in Nature in 1941, the British anatomist Sir Arthur Keith described Eugène Dubois as an idealist.
Chris HaslerHOST
His ideas so firmly held that his mind tended to bend the facts rather than alter his ideas to fit them.
GuidoNARRATOR
As we said, it does not slide down.
GuidoNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith describes very graphically the transport of a bolus of food towards the stomach.
GuidoNARRATOR
Quote, The instant that a bolus has been pushed through the doorway leading from the pharynx, and that doorway has closed, we see a ring of contraction form behind the bolus and commence to creep slowly downwards, forcing the bolus in front of it.
GuidoNARRATOR
The bolus, on entering the esophagus, has touched a button, and the ring of contraction is the result.
19 MINS LATER
GuidoNARRATOR
It also became possible to help the white corpuscles in the fray, or spur them on to it, so to speak, by preparing a sort of sauce, an opsonin, the man of science calls it, from dead bacteria and injecting it into the blood.
GuidoNARRATOR
The opsonin makes the living bacteria more attractive or palatable to the corpuscles, and our brave defenders go to work more vigorously.
GuidoNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith, in The Engines of the Human Body, refers to, quote, the immense and movable armies of microscopic corpuscles which can be mobilized for police or sanitary duties.
GuidoNARRATOR
They swarm in the bloodstream as it circulates round the body.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
As we said, it does not slide down.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith describes very graphically the transport of a bolus of food towards the stomach.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
Quote, The instant that a bolus has been pushed through the doorway leading from the pharynx and that doorway has closed, we see a ring of contraction form behind the bolus and commence to creep slowly downwards, forcing the bolus in front of it.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
The bolus, on entering the esophagus, has touched a button and the ring of contraction is the result.
19 MINS LATER
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
It also became possible to help the white corpuscles in the fray, or spur them on to it, so to speak, by preparing a sort of sauce, an opsonin, the man of science calls it, from dead bacteria and injecting it into the blood.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
The opsonin makes the living bacteria more attractive or palatable to the corpuscles, and our brave defenders go to work more vigorously.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
Sir Arthur Keith, in The Engines of the Human Body, refers to, quote, the immense and movable armies of microscopic corpuscles which can be mobilized for police or sanitary duties.
Guero and GuidoNARRATOR
They swarm in the bloodstream as it circulates round the body.
S. K. EdisonNARRATOR
The first moderns.
S. K. EdisonNARRATOR
Professor T.D. McCown and the late Sir Arthur Keith, who studied the Mount Carmel bones, figured out that one of the two groups involved was as much as 70% modern.
S. K. EdisonNARRATOR
There were, in fact, two groups of varieties of men in the Mount Carmel caves and in at least two other Palestinian caves of about the same time.
S. K. EdisonNARRATOR
The time would be about that of the onset of colder weather, when the last glaciation was beginning in the north, say 75,000 years ago.