Word: kromdraai
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Scottish-born, 76-year-old Dr. Broom (TIME, Jan. 16, 1939) is interested in early man, about whom he has written six books and close to 400 articles. The bones he found at the Kromdraai farm he attributes to higher primates which lived some 500,000 years ago. He sees in them "interesting affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required...
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