Iron County Record | 1938-12-29 | Page 4 | Australopithecus May be the Ancestor of Man

Australopithecus ith May MayBe ay y r Be the Ancestor of Man I Pretoria S. S A A. Man AMan Man Is related to the ape stock through Australopithecus cus CUI a strikingly manlike man extinct ape represented by two fossil skulls discovered In South Africa declares Dr R R. Broom of the Transvaal museum museum mu mu- seum leum here In a communication to the British science weekly Nature Dr Brooms Broom's case ease for Australopithecus eons as a direct ancestor of man Is based in part on a newly discovered ered molar tooth from a lower jaw found In the same cave where he unearthed one of the two skulls This tooth combines primitive human and ape characters In a remarkable way In size Ilze however it is fa anything anything any any- thing but human It Is as aa big as aa a agorilla's agorilla's gorillas gorilla's and far larger than that of ofa ofa ofa a human being or a chimpanzee