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THE work which has been carried out by Dr. H. L. Gordon, of Nairobi, on the mental capacity of the natives of Kenya, has attracted widespread attention in medical and scientific circles both in Africa and in Great Britain. As a result of his observations, he maintains that the brain of the African attains its maximum development at about the age of eighteen years, and that after that period there is a gradual decrease. Further, he finds that the average mental age of a group of educated Africans is equal to that of the European child at 10 5 years, and that senility might be expected at any age after thirty-five years ; while in 2,000 post-mortems conducted by his colleague, Dr. Vint, not one subject had attained the age of sixty years.
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The Native Problem and Research in Africa. Nature 134, 585–587 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134585a0
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