Thursday's Times contains an interesting account of the discovery near
Ipswich by Mr. Moir of the earliest human remains yet found in England. The skeleton was discovered beneath an undisturbed layer of boulder clay, and therefore, if the evidence is good, must belong to a race "which lived in East Anglia before the most severe of the various episodes of the Glacial period." A singular feature of the discovery is that in most respects the skeleton resembles that of a model is Englishman, and is not of the more simian type to which Neanderthal man, though a very much later phenomenon, belongs. There. is now, it seems, a growing body of evidence that the modern type of man was evolved at an extremely early date, before the beginning of the Glacial period, but that for thousands of years afterwards the primitive, or Neanderthal, typo continued to flourish in Europe.
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