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...Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical...
...conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...
...thousand fossil plant specimens acquired during the past year has increased the Botanical Museum collection to more than 88,000 specimens, the largest and most representative paleobotanical collection in the world outside of the British Musum of Natural History, the annual report of the Museum reveals...
...report which was submitted by Oakes Ames '98, director of the Museum, lists a large collection of fossil plants from Japan and Manchukuo as one of the major acquisitions of the year...
...made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated from its mouth. Bits of charcoal showed the inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward...