THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

illustrious sons, when told of the theory that America was originally populated by Asiatics migrating across Bering Strait (6, p. 37), im-mediately asked, like a loyal son of Indiana, why Asia and the rest of the world could not have been populated by Americans! It is now generally recognized that mankind could not have orig-inated in America because anthropologists of today know definitely that man evolved from the nearer Primates, and the existence of any such forms in America at any time is very doubtful (16, p. 485). Since there are many of these species in the Old World, man must have originated there. It is reasonable to suppose that, considering the limited means of transportation available to primitive man, he could have come only from those parts of the Old World lying closest to America. These portions are the western coast of northern Africa, northwestern Europe, the Polynesian Islands, and northeastern parts of Asia. Within the perio