MAN'S DESCENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 7

MAN'S DESCENT.

MISSING LINKS FOUND. LONDON, October 26. Two missing links in man's descent have now been established, says "The Times," referring to the pronouncement by Dr. L. S. B. Leakey, leader of the archaeology research expeditions to East Africa since 1020. He told the Anthropological Institute that he was now satisfied that the Kanjera skulls must be regarded as true specimens of primitive man, and thus the oldest authenticated specimens yet discovered. He added that the Kanam mandible, which the East African expedition also discovered, belonged to a remoter period, perhaps Pliocene, but in view of the Xray examination of tho roots of the teeth, he considered.it should rank as a new species of primitive man, to be regarded as man's true ancestor, at least as old as the Java, Peking, and Piltdown specimens. The fragment of the femur accompanying tho Kanjera skulls belonged to a muscular man who walked fully erect. Dr. Leakey has thus taken the history of man further back than elsewhere in the world, supporting Darwin's theory that Africa was the cradle of the human race, says "The Times."