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characters . . . are not so distinct {i.e. at the age of 15 years) 

 as they would be at full maturity ; but they point unmistakably 

 to the type of Neanderthal, Spy, and Krapina — ^the so-called 

 Homo primigemus which now also becomes Homo mousten- 

 ensis. It was a rather stocky type, robust and of a low stature 

 The arms and legs were relatively short, especially the fore- 

 arm and from the knee down, as is the case among the Eskimo. 

 Ape-like characters are noticeable in the curvature of the 

 radius and of the femur, the latter being also rounder in sec- 

 tion than is the case with Homo sapiens. In the retreating 

 forehead, prominent brow ridges, and prognathism {i.e. pro- 

 jection of the jaws) it is approached to some extent by the 

 modern Australian. The industry associated with this skeleton 

 is that typical of the Mousterian epoch." {Loc. cit., p. 573.) 

 As we have already seen, the so-called ape-like features are 

 simply acquired adaptations to the hunter's life, and, if in- 

 heritable characters, they do not exceed the limits of a varietal 

 mutation. That the Mousterian men were endowed with the 

 same intelligence as ourselves, appears from the evidences of 

 solemn burial which surround the remains of this youth of 

 15 years, and prove, as Klaatsch points out, that these men 

 of the Glacial period were persuaded of their own immortality. 

 The head reclined on a pillow of earth, which still retains the 

 impression of the youth's cheek, the body having been laid 

 on its side. Around the corpse are the best examples of the 

 stone implements of the period, the parents having buried their 

 choicest possession with the corpse of their son. 



(10) The La Chapelle Man: On August 3, 1908, the Abbes 

 J. and A. Bouyssonie and L. Bardon, assisted by Paul Bouys- 

 sonie (a younger brother of the first two), discovered palaeo- 

 lithic human remains, which are also assigned to the Neander- 

 thal group. The locality of the discovery was the village of 

 La Chapelle-aux-Saints, 22 kilometers south of the town of 

 Brive, in the department of Correze, in southern France. In 

 the side of a moderate elevation, 200 yards south of the afore- 

 said village, and beyond the left bank of a small stream, the 



