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REMAINS OF ANCIENT APE ANTHROPOLOGIST’S BELIEF THE ORIGIN OF MAN [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) PRETORIA, Aug. 24. Professor Robert Broom, a wellknown writer on the subject of the origin of man, discovered at Sterkfontein, Transvaal, what he believes to be an adult specimen of a Taungs ape, with teeth more similar to a man’s than those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, though larger than any of the human races. Professor Broom is confident that the problem of man’s origin will be solved in South Africa within a few years. He proposes to call the new specimen Transvaalensis, and expresses the opinion that large anthropoids existed in South Africa during the pleistocene epoch, which are very near the stock from which man originated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 7
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