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Neanderthal and Modern Man

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THE recent communication by Miss Garrod1 concerning discoveries of human remains in Palestine raises questions of such wide and general interest, and bears so directly on work in which we have been engaged, that we venture to put forward the following views as to a possible line along which a synthesis may be made of the complicated evidence so far obtained relating to the fossil history of the human family.

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BUXTON, L., DE BEER, G. Neanderthal and Modern Man. Nature 129, 940–941 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129940a0

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