THE REAL HOMO.
DISCOVERY OF A SKULL
Times' —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Feb. 21, 8.30 a.®].) LONDON, Feb. 20. Before tho Royal Society. Professor Elliott' Smith (formerly of Sydney), Professor of Anatomy in the University of Manchester, said a skull recently discovered at Pilt Down, Sussex, closely resembled the kind of brain- possessed by the earliest representative of the real Homo, while it was of the type of which th© piimitive men and the Tasmanian and Australian bushmen and negroes have been evolved.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 February 1914, Page 5
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