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IN the address of last year the evidence for the existence of man in the Tertiary period was reviewed, and although some of the evidence was very cogent, yet in no case did it amount to a proof, such as is necessarily demanded before so great an antiquity can be accepted for the human race. On the other hand, the presence of man in Quaternary times has long since been proved by the presence of many undoubted flint implements, in cave and river deposits of Pleistocene age and in relation with the bones of the mammoth and other extinct mammalia.
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Palæolithic Man1. Nature 57, 354–355 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057354a0
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