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THE CHANGING GENERATIONS 



Bones of Homo sapiens have been found in late Pleistocene deposits 

 in many regions outside of Europe. Among the better known fossils are 

 the " proto-Australoid " Wadjak skulls from Java, which resemble those 

 of modern Australian natives except in their larger size; the Boskop and 

 other South African skulls, like those of Bushmen but much larger; the 

 Chancelade skull from France, in which some authorities see similarities 

 to the Eskimo; and skulls of faintly Mongoloid aspect from a cave at 

 Choukoutien, China, above that in which Peking Man was found. Post- 



Fig. 30.12. Modern man at the close of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. A boar hunt in 

 France. Half-wild dogs began to be used in hunting and as a protection for the camp during 

 the transitional period (Mesolithic) that preceded the new Stone Age. (Courtesy Chicago 

 Natural History Museum. 



glacial human fossils have been found in most parts of the world, including 

 the Americas and Australia. 



This, in brief review, is what we know about man's ancestry from the 

 fossils. The gaps in the record are enormous, and interpretation of the 

 evidence is not easy. Nevertheless some things do emerge clearly to 

 view. It is now certain that men of our own species, Homo sapiens, have 

 been in existence for at least 34 million years. We also know that other 

 species of men formerly existed and that some of them were present until 

 late in the Pleistocene. The relationships of the various species of men to 



