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to apes in mentality, in power of 

 speech and in ability to use the hand 

 as an organ of the will and intelligence. 

 But they also believe that all these 

 higher faculties, marvelous as they are, 

 find their beginnings in the psychic and 

 physical life of the apes, that the key to 

 the mental and structural adaptations of 

 mankind is to be found in the Primates 

 alone among mammals. 



Such being the general viewpoint of 

 palaeontologists and comparative anato- 



mists, it need hardly be said that, to 

 them, the Piltdown man, far from dis- 

 proving the "Darwinian theory," is 

 indeed a sort of "man in the making." 

 He is one of the innumerable experiments 

 made in Nature's vast laboratory, an 

 early branch of the prehuman stock 

 which had achieved a low human stage 

 of brain and brain-case, but which in 

 face and dentition still bore unmistakable 

 traces of derivation from large-brained, 

 primitive anthropoid apes. 



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Fig 11. Diagram of section of gravel-bed at Piltdown. After Dawson 



1. Surface soil, with flints. Thickness = 1 foot 



2. Pale-yellow sandy loam with gravel and flints. One Palieolithic worlied flint was found 

 in the middle of this bed. Thickness = 2 feet, 6 inches 



3. Dark-brown gravel, with flints, Pliocene rolled fossils and Eoanthropus remains, beaver 

 tooth, " eoliths " and one worked flint. 18 inches 



4. Pale yellow clay and sand. 8 inches 



5. Undisturbed strata of Wealden age 



