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THE ANIMALS AND MAN 



treating, the jaw prominent but with little chin, and in some 

 the leg bones seem to be a little bent as if the erect posture 

 were not so perfectly acquired as now. In fact anthropolo- 

 gists are pretty well agreed to call this early prehistoric man 

 the primitive or fossil man, Homo primigenius, to distinguish 

 him from historic man, Homo sapiens. 



The general course of human development from the dawn 

 of man up to the present is indicated by the names that have 



FIG. 193. Remains of the Neanderthal man, in the Provincial Museum 

 of Bonn. (From Weltall w. Menschheif). 



been given to successive periods in this long history. 



The first period is called Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, 

 when man was contemporary with the cave-bear and mam- 

 moth, rhinoceros, reindeer and hyena in Europe and with 

 other ancient animals in Asia and Africa and perhaps Brazil. 

 No indubitable remains of paleolithic man have yet been 

 discovered in North America. The Calaveras skull of 

 California nor the Lansing man of Kansas nor any other 

 of the few American remains which when first found were 

 attributed to the man of prediluvial times have been able 



