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with) that of modern man." {Science, Feb. 3, 1922, p. 129.) 

 The face is intact. The forehead is low, and the brow ridges 

 are more pronounced than in any known fossil human skull. 

 The prognathism of the upper jaw is very accentuated. The 

 cranium is very flat on top and broad in the back. "Its total 

 capacity is surprisingly large. At least one prominent author- 

 ity thinks that this man had quite as much gray matter as the 

 average modern man." {Loc. cit, pp. 129, 130.) Woodward, 

 however, estimates the cranial capacity of this skull as 1280 

 c.cm. The neck must have had powerful muscles. The nasal 

 bone is prominent and Neanderthaloid in character. 'The 

 wisdom tooth is reduced in size — another point in common 

 with modern man and never found before in a fossil skull." 

 (Ibidem.) The palate and the teeth in general are like those 

 of existing men. The femur is not curved like that of the 

 Neanderthal man — "In contrast to the Neanderthal man who 

 is supposed to have walked in a crouching position (because 

 of the rather curved femur and other bits of evidence), this 

 man is believed to have maintained the upright position, be- 

 cause the femur is relatively straight and when fitted to the 

 tibia (which was also found) presents a perfectly good, 

 straight leg." (Ibidem.) According to the writer we have 

 quoted, Dr. Elliot Smith entertained hopes that the Rhodesian 

 man might represent the "missing link" in man's ancestry, 

 leaving the Neanderthal man as an offshoot from the main 

 ancestral trunk. No comment is necessary. The skull may be 

 a pathological specimen, but, in any case, it is evidently human 

 as regards its cranial capacity. The remains, moreover, 

 serve to emphasize the fluctuational character of the so- 

 called Homo primigenius type, being a mixture of modern and 

 Neanderthaloid features. They are not fossilized and present 

 a recent appearance. Hence, as B. Windle suggests, they may 

 have fallen into the cave through a crack, and may be modem 

 rather than prehistoric. 



(12) The Foxhall Man: This is the earliest known pre- 

 historic man. He is known to us, however, only through "his 



