WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA IIQ 



THE BRAIN 



Professor Elliot Smith shows the volume of the hrain of the 

 Rhodesian skull to have been but 1280 cc, which is markedly smaller 

 than in any of the Neanderthalers with the probable exception of the 

 Gibraltar female. 



Ldmbdoid ju 



I cm 



Fig. 10. — Rhodesian man: endocranial cast, top view. (After G. Elliot Smith, 



1928.) 



The very successful cast shows the brain to have been in general 

 very definitely human, related to that of the Neanderthalers, and 

 superior to both that of the Pithecanthropus and Eoanthropus [ ? skull 

 too defective]. 



The general contour of the hrain and the peculiarities of its form and propor- 

 tions suggest the kinship of Rhodesian man witli the Neanderthal species. The 

 great deficiencies in development of the prefrontal, upper parietal, and inferior 



