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At the neurocranium of the Wadjak Man only the somewhat 
smaller relative size of the frontal part and the jutting backward 
of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum (‘‘pointed” in the Wadjak II 
skull, because the occiput is not only flattened in vertical direction, 
but is also relatively narrow) can be considered as primitive in the 
true sense, i.e. phylogenetically. But even this is somewhat 
doubtful, in my opinion, where the development of the total brain 
volume was certainly no less than in the present Australians. 
The powerful jaws give a truly bestial appearance to the splanchno- 
cranium. But an absolutely large and strong masticatory apparatus 
is no evidence as such of a phylogenetically primitive condition. 
Thus the powerful masticatory apparatus of the Eskimos is only a 
requirement of the way of living of the hyperboreans, namely their 
feeding chiefly on raw meat and bacon. Besides, in proportion to 
the brain capacity, the palatal area of Homo Wadjakensis is cer- 
tainly no larger than that of the Australians, as was demonstrated 
above. Taking into consideration that here a surface is compared 
with a volume, it is found, that certainly in Wadjak I, and 
probably also in Wadjak II the mean longitudinal dimension of the 
masticatory apparatus, in proportion to that of the brain, 
is smaller than in the compared Tasmanian. 
The dimensions of the jaws and the teeth of the Wadjak Man, 
taken each in itself, even remain all within the limits of other 
pachygnathous and megadont fossil and living human types; the 
deviations are never so considerable as to assume systematic signi- 
ficance. The Wadjak Man is certainly megadont, as the Australian 
racial group and also Homo neandertalensis, and even the Combe- 
Capelle Man *). In the absolute strength of the masticatory apparatus, 
taken as a whole, the Wadjak Man is, how- 
ever, only equalled, not surpassed by Homo heidel- 
bergensis. Just as in the whole build of the skeleton, 
the Australian is a type diametrically opposite to 
the Neandertalian, as Bouvre has demonstrated *), 
in the same way Homo wadjakensis is so of Homo 
heidelbergensis, at least certainly in the lower jaw 
(compare especially the cross-sections of the 
symphyses in the adjoined diagram). But these 
have both the most powerful masticatory appara- 
') The size of the teeth may appear from the subjoined comparative tables. 
(See Tables following page). The maxima of the living races of man are taken 
from DE TERRA, BLACK, MüHLREITER, ADLOFF. 
2) L'Homme fossile de La Chapeile-aux-Saints, p. 281-234. Paris 1913. 
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