The Archive · 1937

Earliest Human Being Was Like Ape

Peiping, Nov. 4.

Archmologists to-day proved for the first time what the earliest known human being really locked The complete head of the famous Peking Mao has been reconstructed the Department of Anatomy of the Peiping Union Medical College following the discovery of the only hitherto missing part—the upper Jaw. This was unearthed at Chour ikoulien (the site of the original find in 1929) 0 few days before excave lens were interrupted by the cute break of Sino-Japanese, hostilities.

Dr. Weldenreleh, who discovered the Peking Man, told Reuter Interview to-day that he and, his associates were astonished to find the face much more apelike than expected.

Three plaster casts of the head, which is actually that of a female, have been sent to the United States Jone for the American Museum of Natural History, another for. the Rockefeller Institute, and the third for Mr. John D, Rockefeller himself, Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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