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III.—The Place in Nature of the Tasmanian Aboriginal as deduced from a Study of his Calvarium.—Part I. His Relations to the Anthropoid Apes, Pithecanthropus, Homo primigenius, Homo fossilis, and Homo sapiens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Richard J. A. Berry  and
A. W. D. Robertson
Richard J. A. Berry
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
A. W. D. Robertson
Affiliation:
Anatomy Department of the University of Melbourne
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IN our communication to the Royal Society of Victoria of the 11th March, 1909 (1), describing our recent discovery of forty-two Tasmanian crania hitherto quite unknown to the world of science, we stated that “one of the earliest purposes to which it is proposed to utilise the present material is the determination of the relationship of the Tasmanian to the anthropoids and primitive man on the one hand, and to the Australian aboriginal on the other hand. Schwalbe's study of Pithecanthropus erectus (2) may serve as a basis for the former purpose, and Klaatsch's recent work (3) for the latter, though it must be remembered that innumerable authors have contributed to both subjects.” The present work is the fulfilment of the first part of this undertaking, namely, the determination of the relationship of the Tasmanian to the anthropoids and primitive man.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 31 , 1912 , pp. 41 - 69
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912

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