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DURING the last fifteen years scarcely a year has passed but a new skull has been discovered of a type of primitive man or of a higher ape allied to man's ancestors. We are thus getting a large series of forms which have to be classified, and we are having much new light on the origin of man. Perhaps within a hundred years we may have all the main links between man and an anthropoid such as Dryopithecus, with dozens of forms in side branches, which have left no descendants. But a difficulty will arise in nomenclature.
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BROOM, R. Classification of Sub-human Types. Nature 146, 94 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146094a0
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