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viving pithecoid atavism, but a non-inheritable adaptation 

 acquired through the habitual attitude or posture maintained 

 in stalking game — "Now we know," says Dwight, "that this 

 feature, which is certainly an ape-like one, implies simply that 

 the race was one of those with the habit of 'squatting,' which 

 implies that the body hangs from the knees, not touching the 

 ground for hours together. As a matter of course we look for 

 this in savage tribes." ("Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist," 

 p. 168.) The same may be said of the receding chin, which, 

 as we have seen, is also an acquired adaptation. The same, 

 finally, is true of the prominent brow ridges, which are not 

 pithecoid, but are, as Klaatsch has pointed out, related to the 

 size of the eye sockets, and consequently the result of an 

 adaptation of early palaeolithic man to the life of a hunter, a 

 natural sequel of the very marked development of his sense of 

 sight. Similar brow ridges, though not quite so prominent, 

 occur among modern Australian blacks. 



Nor are the remains as typically Neanderthaloid as Keith 

 and others (who wish to see in palaeolithic men a distinct hu- 

 man species) could desire. No. 1, as we have seen, though al- 

 most a replica of the Neanderthal skull-cap, has a trace of 

 chin prominence in the mandible. No. 2, though the chin is 

 recessive, has a higher forehead and higher and more spacious 

 cranial vault than the Neanderthal Man. "On the whole," 

 says Hrdlicka, "it may be said that No. 2, while in some 

 respects still very primitive, represents morphologically a de- 

 cided step from the Neanderthaloid to the present-day type 

 of the human cranium." (Smithson. Inst. Rpt. for 1913, p. 

 525.) 



(8) The Men of Krapina: In the cave, or rather rock shel- 

 ter, of Krapina, in northern Croatia, beside the small stream 

 Kaprinica which now flows 82 feet below the cave, K. Gor- 

 janovic-Kramberger, Professor of geology and palaeontology 

 at the University of Zagreb, found, in the year 1899, ten or 

 twelve skulls in fragments, a large number of teeth, and many 

 other defective parts of skeletons. All told, they represent at 



