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 Charles Scribner's Sons 



THE PILTDOWN MAN OF ENGLAND 



Antiquity variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years. The apelike structure of the jaw 

 dijes not prevent the expression of a considerable degree of intelligence in the face. (This latter 

 sentence to be found under the corresponding illustration in Prof. Osborn's book is of interest in the 

 light of a discovery made by Dr. Gerrit S. Miller of Washington since the publication of the book — 

 namely, that the jaw discovered with Ihe Piltdown skull is ape instead of human. This leaves a 

 skullcap of a more advanced man.) Prof. Osborn places the Piltdown man in late Pleistocene 

 times. He concludes that there are no acceptable evidences of man as such before the Pleistocene 



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