PRIMITIVE MAN. 



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other marsupialians are living there now. Man and dingo 

 are the only creatures who represent the higher mammals, 

 and we may therefore assume that they are late arrivals. 

 The Australian race was the lowest of all known mankind, 

 ranging even beneath the African negro. While not very 

 ferocious they possessed scarcely any civilization and be- 

 longed still to the paleolithic period. They did not yet 

 understand how to polish stones, nor to make the simplest 

 kind of pottery. 



SKULL OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN. 386B 



Showing the protruding brows. After the original in the Museum 

 of Ethnology in Leipsic. ( Weltall und Menschheit, II, 337.) 



Dr. Schotensack of Heidelberg, who assumes that 

 mankind originated in or near the Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago, claims that the Antarctic continent fullfilled all 

 conditions for the development of the human race from 

 lower forms. There were no beasts of prey to contend 

 with, and man had there a chance to develop his type 

 without let or hindrance. There were plenty of herbiv- 



