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The skullcap approaches near to that of Spy No. i ; the supraorbital 

 arch, the broad depression above, the very low and sloping forehead, 

 and the characteristics of the occiput are much the same as in Spy 

 No. I ; but the La Quina specimen is narrow throughout, and its 

 parietals do not rise into a fairly marked vertex as they do in Spy 

 No. I. 



Sex. — The La Quina skeleton indicates a female rather than a male. 

 The skullcap alone, except for the supraorbital arches, the zygomae, 

 and to a slight extent the mastoids, would also be diagnosed as a 



Z<3 Quina 

 Neanderthal 



Spy L' 



LaChapelle- ^Py^'--- 



Pithecanthrope .♦.«..♦..♦. Arabe mod '-*■ + ♦ + 



Fig. 27 — Sagittal contours of the La Quina skull compared with those of other 

 Neanderthalers, etc. (After Henri Martin.) 



female ; but the arches, the mastoids (for a Neanderthaler) and above 

 all the dental arches, the jaws and the teeth are much more masculine 

 than feminine. Had these parts been found alone they unquestionably 

 would have been diagnosed as having belonged to a male. If this was 

 a female, therefore, she was very exceptional — as in Spy No. i. It 

 would seem more likely that both Spy No. i and the La Quina repre- 

 sent subaverage males. Cases of similar nature are known among 

 primitive skulls and skeletons of our times. Of the pelvis, which 

 would probably have decided the question, nothing unfortunately 

 remains. 



