912 MAN 



palate and teeth, although the tanines do not project in the characteristic 

 simian manner as in the Dawn man of Piltdow n or the fossilized proto- 

 Australian of Talgai. The form of the brain ease and the chstmctive features 

 of the brain ahke corroiiorate the inferences drawn from the laee whieli 

 declare the Rhodesian species the most primiti\e of the entire genus Homo, 

 older and more primitive in fact than Neanck'rthal man. The shin bone and 

 fragment of the femur support this estimation of Rhodesian antic[uity. Such 

 is EUiot Smith's view concerning the age of this last discovered member of 

 the human race. There is, he admits, much that is tentative aboLit his present 

 opinion. The Rhodesian fossils were under the charge of Dr. Smith W oodward 

 in the Natural History Department of the British Museum at South Kensing- 

 ton. Dr. Woodward has already expressed his view that Homo rhodesiensis 

 represents a ])hase of exolution later than the Neanderthal type. Doubt- 

 less in due time a more intensi\ e study of these fossil remains will give a great- 

 er degree of rinalit\- concerning the antiquity of this race of prunitive men. 



FEATURES OF THE ENDOCRAMAL CAST OF THE RHODESIAN SKI LL 



The endocranial east of the Rhodesian skull jiresents certain interesting 

 and at the same time jicrplexing features. At first glance it seems to conlorm 

 in type with Homo saj)iens. Closer inspection, however, occasions consider- 

 able doubt in this regard. On the other hand, the Rhodesian brain a|)pears 

 much superior to that of either the Ja\an or Piltdow n man. It is more primi- 

 tive in some jjartieulars than the Neanderthal cerebrum. Its volume is slightly 

 larger than that of the Piltdow n brain, but distinctly smaller than the 

 Neanderthal. It has much less of the llaltening in the frontal arc than is true 

 of pithecanthropus, eoanthrojjus or Homo primigenius. In a word, it would 

 be difficult to associate this brain genetieall\ w ith that of any of the i)rimitive 

 races already considered. It is, ne\ertheless, too small and too little special- 

 ized in certain areas to consider it in close relation to Homo sapiens. lor the 



