APES AND MEN
THE MISSING LINKS SCIENTIST'S OPINIONS LONDON. Sept. 9 "The missing links connecting apes . with man will most likely be found in the south-west of Central Asia," said Sir Arthur Smith-Woodward, keeper of the Geological Department, British Museum, in an address to tho British Association. Sir Arthur added that tho Himalayan ridge, running east and west, was gradually raised up 00,000,000 years ago when Northern India was covered with a great forest swarming with various kinds of apes. .Those stranded on the northern ridge were subjected to inclement conditions and were also disturbed by the destruction ot trees. Accordingly they were forced to become ground apes and change their feeding habits, whereby they were modified in the direction of man;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 14
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