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THE ignorance of otherwise well-educated people concerning the origin of their own species is not a little astonishing, considering the personal nature of this problem and its intimate relation to philosophical concepts of human existence. One of the reasons for this apparent apathy, no doubt, is the meagreness (until quite recently) of the direct evidence of the fossil record. Another is the difficulty which anthropologists so often seem to experience in making their field of study intelligible to the general public.
Mankind So Far
By Asst. Prof. William Howells. (American Museum of Natural History Science Series.) Pp. xii + 319 + 7 plates. (London: Sigma Books, Ltd., 1947.) 16s. net.
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Mankind So Far. Nature 161, 579–580 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161579a0
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