2 22 LLOYD*S NATURAL HISTORY. 



modern Anthropoid Ape is undoubtedly enormous ; between 

 the Man of Spy and the Djjopithecus it is a little less. But 

 we must be permitted to point out that if the Man of the later 

 Quaternary age is the stock whence existing races have sprung, 

 he has travelled a great way. From the data now obtained, it is 

 permissible to believe that we shall be able to pursue the 

 ancestral type of Man and the Anthropoid Apes still further, 

 perhaps as far as the Eocene, and even beyond." {Fraipont.) 

 As these fossil human remains are now admitted to be of 

 the Palaeolithic age of the Pleistocene period, they give some idea 

 of *' the rate of evolution of the human species, and indicate that 

 it has not taken place at a much faster or slower pace than that 

 of other Mammalia. And if that is so, we are warranted in the 

 supposition that the genus Ho7no^ if not the species which the 

 courtesy or the irony of naturalists has dubbed sapiens^ was 

 represented in Pliocene or even Miocene times. . . . There 

 is no reason to suppose that the genus Homo was confined 

 to Europe in the Pleistocene age; it is much more probable 

 that this, like other Mammalian genera of that period, was 

 spread over a large extent of the surface of the globe. At that 

 time, in fact, the climate of regions nearer the equator must 

 have been far more favourable to the human species, and it is 

 possible that under such conditions it may have attained a 

 higher development than in the north." {Huxley.) Professor 

 Huxley points out also, in the interesting article *' The Aryan 

 Question," in The Contempoi-ary Review for November, 1890, 

 from which we have taken the above extracts, that the Irish 

 river-bed skulls, belonging to a dark-haired, long-headed race, 

 and those of the Frisians, the blond, long-headed race, now 

 living on the North German coast, unmistakably approach the 

 Neanderthal and Spy type in many of their distinctive charac- 



