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TROPICAL AUSTRALIA
Author(s) -
Jndian Jfifdital
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1937.tb141518.x
Subject(s) - geography
" they represent up to the present the highest level to which European colonisation of the tropics has reached." Dr. Nicoll points out that the change of environment to the tropics causes a radical alteration " not so much in physical characters as in mental habitude." Even in the United States a century's separation shows that " the modern American is undoubtedly different mentally" from his forbears of Europe, and at the present time a distinct Australian type is being evolved.