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THE author of the speculative paper referred to below is an evangelist of the gospel of evolution according to Dr. W. D. Matthew. The idea of the Asiatic origin of the dominant orders of mammals, in its source as old as Buffon, was in 1915 placed on a firm basis by Matthew in his paper “Climate and Evolution.” This idea Dr. Griffith Taylor now takes up and applies to the case of man. Penck's fourfold subdivision of the Ice Age is regarded as applying generally, and the development of the prehistoric races in Asia is presumed to occur in the successive mild periods as follows:
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WRIGHT, W. The Asiatic Origin of Man1. Nature 105, 728–729 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105728a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105728a0