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WHEN, nearly forty years ago, Dr. Broom went to Australia to study the most primitive mammals now surviving, very little that was more than conjecture was known of the origin of mammals. As the result of his researches on the comparative anatomy of the Australian monotremes and marsupials and the examination of the rich harvest of fossils that has rewarded his thirtyfour years of searching in South Africa, he has recovered so many links between the most primitive reptiles and mammals as to be justified in claiming, as he does in this book, that the essential problem of the origin of mammals is now definitely solved. Incidentally also, the question of the origin of lizards and crocodiles has been answered, and new light has been thrown upon the ancestry of dinosaurs and birds.
The Origin of the Human Skeleton: an Introduction to Human Osteology.
By Dr. Robert Broom. Pp. 164. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1930.) 10s. 6d. net.
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SMITH, G. The Origin of the Human Skeleton: an Introduction to Human Osteology . Nature 128, 4 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128004a0
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