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THE NEANDERTHAL MEN
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level of power and achievement. The Tasmanians, living under unstimulating conditions, remote from any other human competition or example, lagged behind the rest of the human brotherhood.[1]

About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.

  1. What is known of the Tasmanian Old Stone men is to be found in Roth and Butler's Aborigines of Tasmania. See also footnote on the Tasmanian language to Chapter XIII.