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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 58

Sir Bamfylde Fuller, in an interesting discussion of the probable birthplace of man, ruled out China, Egypt, and South Africa as improbable. He argues that, as man was a vegetarian, his birthplace must have been in a tropical region. He mus.t have lived in a warm climate, and he probably learned cooking by frizzling wild bananas on hot lava. He learned both swimming and navigation, and must therefore have had an island home. The most probable location of the Garden of Eden, it is argued, is either the Malay Archipelago or Polynesia, and Polynesia would be the most convenient centre for the colonisation of the continents. Sir Bamfylde. Fuller concludes that the remains of primitive man found elsewhere would be those of wandering emigrants.