The Evidence Furnished by Anthropology 



thick, its teeth are too small for the jaw of an ape and yet 

 too large for that of a man. The convolutions of the brain 

 show development indicating the beginning of the power of 

 speech. The thigh bones are straighter indicating its erect 

 or nearly erect posture while walking. The scientists of the 

 world study it, compare and measure it and then declare it 

 to be an ape-like man. 



In the long, long ago when continental Europe was vastly 

 different from what it is at the present time, when England 

 was still a part of the main continent and Africa was joined 

 to Europe in at least two or more places, the immediate 

 ancestors of man were struggling with the wild beasts of the 

 forest and plains for mastery and dominion. One of these, 

 a representative of her own race and a mother of a race or 

 races, has left to us her skull as an evidence of her physical 

 make-up. This is known as the Piltdown skull. Let us 

 examine it. It is a vast improvement over the child's skull 

 of Taungs in South Africa and the Java skull which, as we 

 have seen, were vastly superior and higher up in the scale 

 of life than were their predecessors. She has tusks that com- 

 pletely interlock like those of a gorilla. Her skull has broad- 

 ened until it is nearly as broad as it is long. Her eyes are set 

 somewhat obliquely and do not set straight to the front. Her 

 jaws are heavy resembling the jaws of the chimpanzee. Her 

 back teeth have begun to flatten like those of a human. She 

 has no chin but she has a distinct forehead and a larger brain 

 than that of the low-browed Java skull. Her skull is thick 

 and her brain is under-developed but its convolutions are 

 beginning to show development. This race had developed 

 the largest brain and the most nimble fingers and therefore, 



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