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FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. 



between Men and Apes. At most, they demonstrate the 

 existence of a Man whose sknll may be said to revert 

 somewhat towards the pithecoid type — -just as a Carrier, 

 or a Pouter, or a Tnmbler, may sometimes put on the 

 plumage of its primitive stock, the Columha livia. And 



Fig. 32. — Ancient Danish skull from a tumulus at Borreby ; one-third of 

 the natural size. From a camera lucida drawing by Mr. Busk. 



