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ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. 
C. J. Maurice. —Remains of several extinct species of monkeys are known 
from the late Tertiary deposits. The bones of Pithecanthropus erectus from the 
Pliocene of Java are now considered to be human, but they approach more 
nearly to the great apes than do any living races of mankind. Paloeolithic man 
is also known from several now celebrated skulls. The predjnastic (prehistoric) 
P'gyptians had reached a high state of civilisation by about 6000 B.c. 
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