. SKULL OF THE RHODESI.^N ILVN*. appears to combine ape-like and modem elements in a manner and a degree exhibited by no other knowai skull. In this respect alone it bids fair to provide material for controversy for some time to come. For the adequate discussion of these problems, however, more accurate examination at the hands of the expert must be awaited. At present the chief interest of the discovery lies in the light which, at first sight, it appears likely to throw upon the antiquity and evolution of man. Yet at the moment, as has already been said, any suggestion must be taken as tentat
. SKULL OF THE RHODESI.^N ILVN*. appears to combine ape-like and modem elements in a manner and a degree exhibited by no other knowai skull. In this respect alone it bids fair to provide material for controversy for some time to come. For the adequate discussion of these problems, however, more accurate examination at the hands of the expert must be awaited. At present the chief interest of the discovery lies in the light which, at first sight, it appears likely to throw upon the antiquity and evolution of man. Yet at the moment, as has already been said, any suggestion must be taken as tentative and as indicative of the points to which investigation should be directed, rather than as providing any definite advance towards a solution of these problems. In order to understand clearly the bearing of an inquin,' into the antiquity of any particular find of human remains, it should be home in mind that the evidence of age may be drawn from one or more of several sources. The evidence may be geological, the geological stratum in which the remains are found
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