“MISSING-LINK” A HOWLER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4395, 27 March 1922, Page 3

“MISSING-LINK” A HOWLER.

« DR. SMITH WOODWARD ON THE RHODESIA SKULK “This Rhodesian is clearly one of ■a species of man belonging to an entirely new race,” declared Dr. Smith. Woodward, Keeper of the Geological Department of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, in a recent lecture on the pre-histpric skull of the African ape-man found in Rhodesia towards the end of last year. The brain cavity, he said, was, very interesting. It must have been in a condition which modern man passed through in his' ordinary development’. A fully developed modern brain represented a stage which the Rhodesian man had not reached. Inside the skull was typically human, The shape of the palate was more horseshoe than many of the lower races living to-day. It* was ultra-human, and there was no doubt that the Rhodesian "missing, link” had a very fine voice. He was; a fin? singer or else a. very fine howler, probably the latter... (Daughter.) The arrangement of the teeth was that of modern man, and the wisdom teeth were disappearing and getting smaller. It was only in the higher types of man that the wisdom teeth tended to disappear. The skull was fixed to the spinal column in exactly the same way as in modern man.