A view on evolution (from the 1950s)

This is from "The Tree of Culture", by Ralph Linton, published in 1955. I wonder what Dr. Linton would think of the Creationist (or anti-evolutionist) movement of today.

"The primary purpose of this book is to set down what we know about the origins and growth of what the anthropologist calls culture: the mass of behavior that human beings in any society learn from their elders and pass on to the younger generation. However, before going into this, it is worthwile to say a little about the origins and qualities of the animal responsible for this curious behavior. This is the more necessary because there is, as always, a lag between what the scientist knows and what the non-scientist believes. The battle between the anthropologists and the anti-evolutionists, which in any case was mainly shadow-boxing on the part of the anti-evolutionists, has long since been fought and won. Outside of a few geographical or intellectual back districts, no one questions today that we are descended from some sort of animal. The main problems are what sort of animal, and what line human evolution has followed. We can dispose of one popular misunderstanding immediately. It is certain that man is not descended from any anthropoid ape now extant. These apes are not our ancestors but our cousins whose line of descent branched off from our own at least a million years ago."