AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



a history that the discoveries and investi- 

 gations of the last score of years have 

 done more to reveal than had all study 

 previous to the beginning of this century. 



The search for relics of man, both of his 

 body and his handiwork or culture, may 

 be, and has, in fact, been, pursued in two 

 slightly different special ways. The his- 

 torian may trace man back to the days of 

 earliest history as recorded by preserved 

 books and scripts. Then the archaeolo- 

 gist and ethnologist may carry the story, 

 ever more broken and incomplete, back 

 by study of his scattered carved hiero- 

 glyphs and monuments and implements. 

 Such studies take us back to days of the 

 earliest civilizations of China and Egypt 

 and Asia Minor and Crete. 



Here the archaeologist hands over the 

 search to the anthropologist and paleon- 

 tologist, whom he finds have been working 

 from the other end, that is, from earlier 

 periods up to later ones instead of from 

 later ones back to earlier ones, and have 

 been working rather as students of biol- 

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