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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.