OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



left or had been driven forth from the ancient 

 forests, his omnivorous-carnivorous habits were 

 developed during the age-long and bitter struggle 

 for life on the plains. Thus the gentle pro- 

 anthropoids, quiet feeders on the abundant fruits 

 of the forest, introduced a long period of peace- 

 ful development in the strenuous upward struggle. 



Fig. 44. Anthropoid and Human Skulls (after Boule). 

 A. Chimpanzee; B. Neanderthal; C. Modern European. 



This peace was rudely broken when from some 

 zoological Garden of Eden, that is, from the center 

 of post-anthropoid evolution, the ancestral horde 

 of savage pro-hominids were turned out on the 

 plains to devastate the world. 



AT LAST THE PERFECT FACE 



As yet there is an immense hiatus in the palseon- 



tological history of man, covering at least several 



million years in the Pliocene epoch. All known 



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