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one of the discoverers of the Spy Cavern, who is an eminent 
anatomist, thus sums up the evidence afforded by those skeletons. 
“ The distance which separates the man of Spy from anthropoid 
apes is undoubtedly enormous ; between the man of Spy and the 
dryopithecus it is a little less. From the data now obtained it is 
permissible to believe that we shall be able to trace the ancestral 
type of man and the anthropoid apes still further, perhaps as 
far as the eocene and even beyond.” 
