MAN : PAST AND PRESENT. 



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pointed out that the cranial capacity decreases with the antiquity 

 of all the skulls hitherto brought to light, and that this skull has a 

 capacity of from 900 to 1000 c.c., that is, "stands at the level of 

 the smallest which have been occasionally found amongst the 

 reputedly lowest savage peoples." An -accompanying diagram 

 shows its position intermediate between Chimpanzee and the 

 Man of Spy' 2 , and Manouvrier adds that it may perhaps be 

 more directly connected with the Australian race. " The differ- 

 entiation of the human races having probably been but slightly 



Cro-Magnon 



POSITION OF P. ERECTUS. 

 (Manouvrier, Bui. Soc. d'Anthrop. 1896, p. 438.) 



developed in the pliocene epoch, I may be permitted to suggest 

 that the race of Trinil [Java] was the common ancestor of many 



1 Bui. Soc. d'Anthrop. 1896, p. 419. 



2 Eth. p. 146. 



