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The three southern fossils were in various stages of development, with Liu-chiang Man from Kwangsi as the oldest, followed by Tzu-yang Man from Szechwan (cf. 2, 57-58) and Lai-pin Man also from Kwangsi in chronological order.…The Tzu-yang Man is represented by a very complete skull which bears some resemblance to Homo erectus on the one hand and Homo sapiens on the other, forming a link between the two widely different stages of Chou-k'ou-tien.…Pebble and flake chopping-tools were used and occasionally, as at Tzu-yang, a triangular bone splint was scraped into a point which became blunt and polished through long usage.

Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.

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