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THIS little handbook, by Dr. H. S. Harrison, curator of the Horniman Museum, is written simple language, and admirably suited to stimulate interest in the recent remarkable progress our knowledge of the ancestry of man. The bibliography with which it concludes will also be helpful to those who wish to pursue the subject further. Dr. Harrison emphasises the fact that man must be traced back to small arboreal mammals, and well observes: βIt is scarcely too much to say that if the earth had borne no trees, there would have been no men.β His anatomical descriptions are made readable and interesting by his frequent references to habits and modes of life.
The Ascent of Man: A Handbook to the Cases illustrating the Structure of Man and the Great Apes.
(London County Council.) Pp. 74. (London: The Horniman Museum and Library, n.d.) Price 6d.
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W, A. The Ascent of Man: A Handbook to the Cases illustrating the Structure of Man and the Great Apes . Nature 105, 708 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105708b0
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