EXTINCT ANIMALS 



take two skulls, that of a man and a monkey 

 (Fig. 59), and draw a line from the region just 

 over the nose, between the ridges of the brow, 

 and run it back to the occipital ridge at the 

 back of the skull, there is left above the line a 



Fig. 59. — Photograph of the tojD of the skull or " calvaria " 

 of the so-called Monkey-man, Pithecanthropus, discovered 

 in Java. On the left is the skull of a Chmipanzee and on 

 the right that of a modern man, for comparison. A line 

 is drawn from the point between the eyebrows to the 

 occipital ridge at the back of the skull, showing how much 

 shallower the dome of the skull (the part above the line) 

 is in tlie ape than in the man, and that the Javanese 

 skull is nearly as shallow as that of the ape. (Original.) 



great hemispherical dome in the human skull, 

 whereas in the monkey the space left above is 

 much flatter, much shallower. 



In a river gravel in Java the imperfect skull 

 of the so-called Pithecanthropus, or monkey- 



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