AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



agined may still be living in unexplored 

 regions of Africa or Asia and to find 

 which expeditions have been occasionally 

 sent out, only so far to return empty- 

 handed. Nor does he find any living 

 types which can possibly be construed to 

 parallel in their condition, or actually to 

 be persisting remnants of, the most 

 ancient or most primitive types of real 

 men. But he gets nearer to understand- 

 ing the life of man in those days when 

 types of men now extinct were the 

 highest types, by looking at human life 

 as exhibited by the lowest types now 

 living. 



What, then, are some of the specific 

 facts which have been determined by 

 paleontologists and anthropologists con- 

 cerning prehistoric man? To try to tell 

 the whole story is far beyond my inten- 

 tion. We have neither time nor, indeed, 

 need for it for the purposes of this dis- 

 cussion. But the outstanding parts of it 

 can be told in few words, and these parts 

 are extremely pertinent to any general 

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