ABSTRACT
BEFORE I take up in detail Mr. Whitney’s contribution of last week, I second most heartily Mr. Whitney’s request that all readers of this debate straightway look up Professor Hooton’s article in Science for July 12, 1935. Professor Hooton has long been among the sanest and most critical of writers on human evolution, as well as one of the liveliest and most interesting of them. This particular paper of his, which my opponent and I unite in recommending, seems to me to be the best summing up that I know of the whole subject which we are discussing here, up to about the time of the discovery of the second Australopithecus fossil. If anything I have written does not agree completely with Professor Hooton’s views, the passage is hereby withdrawn. This includes, not only this paper which Mr. Whitney approves, but all Professor Hooton’s writings. I especially commend his recent book, “Up from the Ape.”
