What Darwin Missed
1916-08-12 · 25 min · ★ 10.0
Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea that there is a "missing link." One night he dreams that he is an explorer and that he has just landed upon a foreign shore; he secures the aid of a mahout and an elephant to move his tent and belongings to the jungle, where he will take up the study of trying to find the "missing link."
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- Beverly Griffith
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Joe MartinThe Wise Oran-Outang
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