Abstract
IN this volume Prof. Elliot Smith has reprinted three addresses-his presidential address to Section? at the Dundee meeting of the British Association in 1912, a paper presented to the British Academy in 1916, and a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution in the current year. Each deals with some one aspect of man's evolution, with particular reference to the specifically human attributes which evolve part passu with the development of the brain. To them he has added a foreword in which he demonstrates with diagrams a tentative scheme of the relationships of the different genera, species, and races of the human family and a similar scheme of the relationship of the order of primates. In the former of these he puts forward what are undoubtedly very suggestive views on the problems presented by Eoanthropus and Rhodesian man. Prof. Elliot Smith has republished these lectures to meet the need for a consistent and coherent account of the essential factors in the evolution of man, pending the preparation of a more elaborate text-book, which, it is needless to say, will be heartily welcomed by all who are interested in this subject.
The Evolution of Man: Essays.
Dr.
G. Elliot
Smith
By. Pp. viii + 159. (London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 5s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 114, 410 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114410c0
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