...College of Surgeons, argued in a pre-Piltdown publication that the traditional model of evolutior as "working in an orderly manner, passing step by step from a Simian to £ modern type of man" was incorrect (1911:26). Instead, Keith argued that modern man must have existed...

...evolved, Keith leads him away from a Darwinian perspective to a new view of the mechanics of evolution. "We expected to find evolution working in an orderly...step by step from a Simian to a modern type of man," Keith had written in Ancient Types of Man. "It will be seen, however, that the succession of human...

...seen as occupying different stages on a straight-line progression from the primitive to the advanced: "passing step by step from a Simian to a modern type of man," as Keith put it at the time. It was perceived as a long, slow process, with Neanderthal being one of...