AUSTRALIA ABORIGINES
TYPE SOUGHT BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS BEARING ON THEORY' OF EVOLUTION (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 24. Sir Arthur Keith, lecturing at the Royal College of Surgeons, dealt on the bearing of the recent discoveries in Australia and Java on the theory of man’s evolution. He said that when the anthropologist sought a type to serve as a common ancestor to both the black and the white men it was found that the Australian aborigine came nearest to the ideal. When modern man settled in Australia at the end of the eighteenth century the aboriginies represented a race which had far outstripped the earlier branch which had passed from Asia to Australia when Europe was still in the grip of the ice age. Sir Arthur Keith, in detail, described the skull at Taiga (Queensland), the discovery of which was announced at the British Association’s meeting in Svdnev in 1914.
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Southland Times, Issue 19460, 27 January 1925, Page 5
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