Ill 



THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 



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my interpretation, and that the posterior lobe of 

 the brain of the Neanderthal man must have been 

 as much flattened as I suspected it to be. 



In truth, the Neanderthal cranium has most 

 extraordinary characters. It has an extreme 



c 



side, B, front, and C, top view. One half the natural size, 

 natural size, by Mr. Busk: the details from the cast and 

 protuberance; d lambdoidal suture. 



length of 8 inches, while its breadth is only 5.75 

 inches, or, in other words, its length is to its 

 breadth as 100 : 72. It is exceedingly depressed, 



