Abstract

IN the altogether excellent jubilee number of NATURE (No. 2610, vol. civ.) there is, I notice, a short paper entitled “The Antiquity of Man” contributed by Dr. A. Smith Woodward. We are told in this paper (p. 212) that “as discoveries progress it becomes increasingly clear that true man, of the family Hominidæ, cannot [the italics are mine] be earlier than Late Pliocene or the dawn of the Pleistocene”. We learn also that “so long ago as 1880” Sir William Boyd Dawkins, “for other reasons”, came to the same conclusion.

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