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THIS book gives an excellent popular exposition of the present state of our knowledge of prehistoric anthropology. The chapters on Palaeolithic man and his implements are full of interest. Within the last few years a considerable number of more or less complete Palæolithic skeletons have been discovered in France and elsewhere, and great additions have been made to our knowledge of man in this distant epoch. In this little volume will be found a lucid description of the latest discoveries. The author is not content to give a mere list of more or less disconnected data, but always endeavours to weave his material into a continuous evolutionary story. This tendency, though admirable in a popular writer, appears in some cases to lead to a slight distortion of the facts in order to make them fit into the theory. For example, the Palæolithic race represented by the Grimaldi, Galley-hill, and other remains is assigned to the later Palæolithic, though the geological evidence appears to be pretty clear that these remains belong at least to the middle Palæolithic. The Gibraltar skull has recently been shown by Dr. Keith to have been the first Palaeolithic skull found (1843) in. Europe, and to represent one of the most primitive races. This discovery does not appear to have been, known to the author.
Prehistoric Man.
By Joseph McCabe. Pp. viii + 128. (London: Milner and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. net.
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Prehistoric Man . Nature 84, 39 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084039b0
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