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the man of Spy, about whom I shall have more to say ; 
and Manouvrier is of opinion that it may be more directly 
connected with the Australian race. Keane, in his ‘ Man, Past 
and Present,’ suggests that the race of Trinil (Java) was the 
common ancestor of many human races, if not of all those 
that have been subsequently differentiated. 
Professor Hepburn is very emphatic regarding the dis- 
tinctly human character of the femur, also that it antedates 
Fiq. 2. — Position of Pithecanthropus erectus. 
all other human remains yet discovered, and that of living 
races the nearest akin are the Australians, Andamanese, and 
Bushmen, thereby lending support to the view that these 
‘ low races spring from a common primeval stock ’ which 
originally inhabited the now vanished Indo- African continent. 
In a sense this Upper Pliocene citizen of Java may be 
looked upon as the ‘ first man ’ ; and as there is a strong 
probability that he could not have had any human ancestors 
elsewhere, ‘ the Indo-Malaysian intertropical lands ’ may, 
with a considerable amount of credence, be looked upon as 
the cradle-land of the human race. 
