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Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Europeans
Publisher: New York, J. A. Hill and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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g. 25.—The skull from the Neanderthal cavern. A, side, B, front,and C, top view. One half the natural size. The outlines from camera of the Neanderthal man must have been as much flattened as Isuspected it to be. In truth, the Neanderthal cranium has most extraordinary char-acters. It has an extreme length of 8 inches, while its breadthis only 5.75 inches, or, in other words, its length is to its breadth 106 MANS PLACE IN NATURE as 100 : Y2. It is exceedingly depressed, measuring only about3.4 inches from the glabello-occipital line to the vertex. Thelongitudinal arc, measured in the same way as in the Engis skull,is 12 inches; the transverse arc cannot be exactly ascertained, inconsequence of the absence of the temporal bones, but was prob-ably about the same, and certainly exceeded 10^ inches. Thehorizontal circumference is 23 inches. But this great circum-ference arises largely from the vast development of the supra-ciliary ridges, though the perimeter of the brain case itself is
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lucida drawings, one half the natural size, by Mr. Busk; he details fromthe cast and from Dr. Fuhlrotts photographs, a glabella; & occipitalprotuberance; d lambdoidal suture. not small. The large supraciliary ridges give the forehead a farmore retreating appearance than its internal contour would bearout. To an anatomical eye, the posterior part of the skull is evenmore striking than the anterior. The occipital protuberance occu-pies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-oc-cipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of theoccipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skullslopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidalsuture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium. At FOSSIL REMAINS OP MAN 107 the same time, notwitlistanding the great length of the skull,the sagittal suture is remarkably short (4^ inches), and the squa-m.osal suture is very straight. In reply to my questions Dr. Fuhlrott writes that the occip

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