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human character — the chin ; and the slope of the interior 

 (or posterior) surface of its symphysis is intermediate be- 

 tween that of Man and the higher Apes. The bones of the 

 fore-arm (the ubia and radius) are curved so as to produce 

 a space between them, wider than in any human subject, and 

 resembUng what is seen in Apes. The thigh-bone {femur) is 

 so shaped and articulated to the leg-bone {tibia) "that in order 

 to maintain equilibrium the head and body must have been 

 thrown forward." This relation of ihe femur and tibia is found 

 in the Apes, and it is highly probable that the Man of Spy 

 presented a somewhat similar figure when walking ; that is to 

 say, the knees were bent and the body thrown forward. The 

 crowns of the molar teeth of this race have, as in the lowest 

 races of Man, four cusps, but with distinct and divergent 

 roots, as among the Chimpanzees, but they increase in size 

 from in front to behind, as they do in Apes. " The other 

 and much more numerous characters of this long-headed 

 skull, of the trunk and of the hmbs, seem to be all human." 

 {Fraipont.) " Under whatever aspect we view this [the Nean- 

 derthal] cranium .... whether we regard its vertical 

 depression, the enormous thickness of its supra-ciliary ridges, 

 its sloping occiput, or its long and straight squamosal suture — 

 we meet with Ape-like characters, stamping it as the most 

 pithecoid of human crania yet discovered." The cranial ca- 

 pacity being, however, about seventy-five cubic inches, " so 

 large a mass of brain as this would alone suggest that the 

 pithecoid tendencies indicated by the skull did not extend 

 deep into the organisation. , . In no sense, then, can the 

 Neanderthal bones be regarded as the remains of a human 

 being intermediate between Man and Apes." {Huxky, 1867.) 

 "The distance which separates the Man of Spy from the 



