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A SKULL 1.000,000 YEARS OLD.
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Before the Age of
Peking Man.
UNABLE TO WALK ERECT
Canberra. July 27. New light on the evolution of the human race has been afforded by the discovery of a skull in the Jervols Range of Central Australia.
According to Sir Colin Mac- kenzie, director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, the skull is the relic of a woman who lived her life in days before the Peking man, the discovery of whose remains has excited anthropologists, during the past two years.
was
and shows that all intellectual deve- lopment ha a muscular basis.
•Recent Acquisition. The erect posture is a recent human nequisition und is still in the experimental stage. The the world | Jervols skull teaches
that we must pay more, attention to the factors on which our erect pos- ture depends. We have mistaken-
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"As soon as une disease, for in- stance, typhoid, is conquered other, for instance, epidemic men- ingitis, springs up. The human race appears to be bending under the modern strain. The Jervola skull warns us from the past that' we must conserve the muscular sys- | H. K. Fire Ina, .....$1480 tem on which intellectual fitness depends."
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If Sir Colin is correct in his con- clusions, the Jervois woman alive over a million years ago.
"Primitive but not Prehistoric." Douglas In a lecture to members of the Commenting on Sir Colin Mac-H. K, Strambe
kenzie's statement, Professor G. Indo-China (Pre(,) ....§| Elliot-Smith, said:
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Medical Society Sir Colin described, the Jervois skull as constituting the most triportant discovery of a "All one can gather from Sir Shell Bearer ord!· prehistoric skull which has been Colin Mackenzie's report is that he aim Waterbo 9
It combined, he sold, many has obtained the akull of a modern primitive features which had not aboriginal Australian which
Mluing.. hitherto been seen in human brain. 1 sonta primitive characters, such as Beng
"The Jervois skull," Sir Colin ob- are not uncommon in this primitive ( Kalin Mining Ad. i/- served, "is older than the Peking race. Or it may be nothing more Langkau (Single).... skull. It belonged to an adult than the skull of a mental defective. S'hal Exploration... Tit. female, aged about thirty. She "The use of the word "prehistoric" was only capable of the most pri and the reference to the Peking mitive speech. Her narrow, slop-skull as being 'more modern' are ing forehead shows the poorest quite unintelligible. The time of brain development. The back man's first arrival in Australia is occipital portion is shortened and quite recent. in comparison with is almost completely composed of the age of the Peking man. The occipital bone.
aboriginal Australians belong to the same species as other modern men-Homo Sapiens",""
Smallest Human Brain. "The skull possesses the lowest known cubic brain capacity of any complete human skull."
Sir Colin went on to suggest that the remales were these of A
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