NEW APE SPECIES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 6

NEW APE SPECIES

DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Per British Official Wireless.) . RUGBY, August; 21. A paper on Anfhropus dlobusfus a hitherto unknown species of ape which lived in the pleistocene period, was read by Dr. Broom before the- British Association. The remains of a skull of this early anthropoid were .found by a schoolboy af Krondriai South Africa, « , - • .

Dr. Bmom said thaJt he thought fha.t there were indications that the ape would be moreupright than any living aiiilirbpoid ami would have a brain cavity of (>OO eiilije eentimetres. The teeth were arranged more nearly a,s in man I,bail they were in any living anthropoid, 'Sir 'Arthur Keith agreed (lint these fossil remains established the ■ existence in .South Africa until comparatively recent, times of a strange family of anthropoid apes making' the approach to niaii. Had these remains come from strata of an elder .-eologieal

date experts' ennld have hailed them as the hmg-sHiight;' ; anthropoid * stage in • (nan’s ancestry. They .were in .fact, ol * too late an origin 'to : plrty that role tor : pleistocene human forms were already tin existence, * S v - 7 •"