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THE following observations seem to me to be of considerable interest in connexion with the genealogy of fossil types of men. So far back as 1923 I had photographed, side by side, the mandible of an Australian aboriginal, in the Anatomy Department of the University of Sydney, and a cast of the Heidelberg mandible. My object was to show the almost exact correspondence in size and shape of the teeth; in each case the tooth arches were extraordinarily alike in very many respects, but as at that time I could find no example of an Australian or other mandible of modern man which approached the ramus of the Heidelberg jaw in size and general shape, I let the matter stand.
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BURKITT, A. Neanderthal Man and the Natives of New Caledonia. Nature 122, 474–475 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122474a0
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