Abstract
THE discovery of a fossil human skull near Keilor, an outer suburb of Melbourne, is a matter of high importance to students of human evolution, who will certainly welcome Dr. Zeuner's1 confirmation of the great antiquity attributed to it by Mr. D. J. Mahony, namely, that it represents a native Australian of the last (Riss–Wurm) interglacial period. In seeking for the homeland of this ancient representative of Homo sapiens, neither Dr. Zeuner nor Dr. Wunderly, who was entrusted with the description of the skull, allude to the most probable source of the aboriginal population of Australia, namely, the early pleistocene races of Java, typified by Pithecanthropus erectus.
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