The suggestion that the story of Adam and Eve tumed out of. the Garden of Eden might be based on the emergence of our remote anthropoid ancestors from the thin-hing forests of ancient days was made by Dr. A. W. Grabau, chief paleontologist to the National Un Nersity of Peking, in a lantern lecture on "Central Asia, cradle of the human race," to the Royal Asiatic Society "(North "China Branch), Shanghai on Friday evening, before Teaving for the north on his return from the International Geological gress. in Washington.
Dr. Grabau remarked that speculations as. to the site of the cradle of the human race had been made ever since man had thought! about his origin. Assuming man the the derivative of a more pi tive type of creature serving as an-cester both of man and the living nthropoids, there had been several theories as to the place where there first emerged an activity of huma character, Supporters of the Afri-
Siberia that they must look for traces of later primitive man, the absence of paleolithic remains in China itself being due to the cold and dust storms caused by the great glacial region to the north rendering the country uninhabitable, tentioning that one of the two skulls unearthed from the fissure
ing was nearly twice as thick as "the "ancient, limestone near Pethe other, Dr. Grabau humorously Suggested that this was possibly that of, a female. The Peking man aid hi 1g with a club, and those with the thickest skulls sur-
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