This is the fourth expedition Mr, Andrews has led into Mongolia and on all previous occasions he has deprecated the circulation of reports that his intention has been to look for what is commonly called "the missing link." But at {interview mentioned he said this time the expedition's main purpose was to look for remains of early man, far earlier than anything connected with man that has ever been found, earlier than the Java Ape man, in fact an ancestor of the human race in a direct lin The expedition, he said, received great stimulus last summer by the in the Western Hill from Peking, tooth believed to belong to a'member of the human ace as old as the Java Ape man. "This tooth was discovered by Dr. Davidson Black, of the Peking Union Medical College and is described by Mr. Andrews as probably the oldest and most i portant piece of human remains yet discovered. He believes it to be at least a million years old and pos-ably older. Its importance lies in the fact that it is believed to belong to a being in the direct line of human descent whereas the Java Ape man was a member of a branch of the stem which produced the man race but which has long since died out. Knowing that remains of very early man exist in the neighbourhood the expedition sets out th high hopes of finding. further evidence of early man and possibly fossilized remains of a human ancestor dating back further than anything yet discovered.
Previous expeditions, said the scientist, had discovered evidence which demonstrated beyond doubt that the great Central Asian plateau had been a great theatre of Evolu-mainly because it was the old-continuously for millions of years, "So this year we are going to ize in the search for primi. ive man, We have received a great stimulus by the recent local discoveries. The tooth found by Dr, Davidson Black kas been called Sinanthropus or the Peking Man, Its discovery shows that the expedi tion has been on the right track"
'Mr, Andrews pointed out.that every recent discovery in connection with primitive man pushed his ancestry further and further back into the past. Only' a few years ago scientists' supposed that man had existed as a separate species for not more than 500,000 to 1,000,- 000 years but naw there was reason to suppose that he might have existe ed as a separate species for two or even three million years, "The human race is unquestionably more ancient than was supposed only ten years ago, We army on this expedition, going to search strata and deposits as old as the oligocene age which, a few years ago, would have been thought far too'old to contain human ramaings We are going through them with 8 fine comb to see if they contain evidence of man's existence so far back. We shall go to a point 300 miles north-west of Kalgan where there is a large area full of deposits of the right azo, oligocene, miocene, pleiocene and pleistocino, and which we believe contain those remains if they have been preserved. The deposits have never yet been examined except cursorily. It 'a great deal like looking for needle in a haystack but we have already found that it is the only place in the world where delicate dinosaur eggs were preserved and we are hoping we shall find remains of very early man preserved."
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