774 MAN 



that slow but sure decline, that invaria[)Ie destruction which overtook hini. 

 The persistent procession of these phases seemed to exert a i)aneful inlluence 

 on all his ell'orts toward progress, whether the part he phiycd was that of 



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FIG. 336. A GROUP OF BRITISH SCIENTISTS DISCUSSING THE PILTDOWN SKULL. 

 Standing, Lrrr to Right: Mr. F. O. Barlow, Prof. Elliot Smith, Mr. Charles Dawson, Dr. A. Smith 



W oodwarcl. 

 Sitting, Lilit to Kkhit: Prof. A. S. Uiiderwoud, Sir Arthur Kiith, Mr. \\ . P. P\ craft. Sir F.. Ray Lancaster. 



Heidelberg or Pihdown Man, Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon, Egyptian or 

 Babylonian, Greek or Roman. 



Advantages Co.\lmon to the Mediterranean and European Terrain. 

 What have been the acKantages in the Mediterranean and European 

 terrain not common to other territories ol the earth? Perhaps some con- 

 ditions of minuinity, some subtle dictai\ mlhu'nees upon the endoerme sys- 

 tem, some bacterial or parasitic s\ nibiosis j^cculiar to the temperate zone 



