EVOLUTION OF MAN.
AUSTRAIJ AN ABO RIG I NEE. AN ANCIENT RACE. BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. / Received Jan. 26, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 25. Sir Arthur Keith, lecturing at the R'oyal College of Surgeons, dealt on the bearing of recent discoveries in Australia and Java on the theory cl man’s evolution. He said that when an anthropologist sought a type to serve as the common ancestor of both black and white men, the Australian aboriginee came nearest to the ideal. When the modern man. settled in Australia at tire end of the eighteenth cenutry, they represented -a race which far outstripped the earlier branch which passed from Australia when Europe was still in the grip of the ice age. Sir Arthur Keith described in detail the skull found at Taiga i, Queensland, the discovery of which was announced at the British Association’s meeting in Sydney in 1914.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 January 1925, Page 7
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