OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES 



The close anatomical relationship of man to the 

 anthropoids, together with the fundamental iden- 



A 



Fig. 43. Anthropoid and Human Skulls. Top View. 



A. Chimpanzee (after Boule); B. Pithecanthropus (after Dubois); 

 C. Neanderthal (after Boule); D. Cro-Magnon (after Boule). 



tity in the molar patterns (Fig. 41) of the most 

 ancient fossil men to those of still older anthro- 

 poids, indicates that man has been derived from 



frugivorous pro-anthropoids and that after man 



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