NEANDERTHAL MAN 



647 



XXIV. 14 



own, especially in the relatively small frontal lobes and backwardly 

 extending occipital region. 



Typical Neanderthal skeletons are common in Europe but the type 

 was probably widespread since similar fossils have been found in 



FlG. 420. Skeletons of Neanderthal and modern man. (After Howells, Mankind 

 So Far, Doubleday and Co. Inc.) 



South Africa (*H.?i. rhodesiensis) and Java (*H.n. soloensis), the latter 

 showing primitive features that perhaps connect it directly with 

 ^Pithecanthropus. 



