Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-01 | Page 27 | Think Skull may Prove 'Missing Link'

THINK SKULL MAY PROVE 'MISSING LINK' IjOXDOX, March 31. What may be the Ion sj-sought "missing link" Is decried by some scientists in a human skull just arrived here irom Talcrai, Queensland. In resnt-cl of the lare teeth, canines especial espe-cial y, it is probably more primitive and a pelike than any other known specimen, except ins 'n!y the famous Piltdown skull, unearthed in Sussex. The Queensland skull is highly fossilized fossil-ized and much fractured. The brain case had reached the Ptaee represented in the modern Australian ahoriiiinal, while the ; fare s' ill retained much of the uncouth-I uncouth-I nesK of the ape. Professor G. Elliot I SmiLh stated today this confirms the view that in the evolution of man the brafn first acquired the human status and the refinement of the features came at'terwa rd.