THE MISSING LINK
APE AND MAN. PROFESSOR’S SUGGESTION. POSSIBLY IN ASIA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) Received September 10, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 9. “The missing link connecting the apes and man is most likely to be found in South-west- and Central Asia,” said Sir Arthur Smith-Wood-ward, the geologist, addressing the British Association. He added that the Himalayan ridge, running east and west, had been gradually raised up 60,000,000 years ago, when Northern India was covered with a great forest, swarming with various kinds of apes. Those stranded on the northern ridge had been subjected to inclement conditions and also disturbed .by the destruction of the trees, and, accordingly, had been forced to become ground apes and change their feeding habits, as a result.of which the type became modified in the direction of man.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 242, 10 September 1935, Page 7
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