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'GOOD wine needs no bush' ; nevertheless South African anthropologists are very grateful to Sir Arthur Keith for his unfailing interest in their work and particularly for his recent note on the Florisbad skull1. It is, as Sir Arthur says, an outstanding landmark in human palæontology, and well worthy of sharing attention with Rhodesian man. But just as there is little agreement about the exact position of the latter in the human scale, so the status of Florisbad man is not yet settled.
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DEENNAN, M. The Florisbad and Taungs Skulls. Nature 142, 154–156 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142154b0
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