THE MOST ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN 
as in the Neanderthalers. No such immense welts have 
ever been seen in any other human specimen, nor even, if 
their thickness alone is considered, in the anthropoid 
apes. They constitute a huge exaggeration of this ancient 
characteristic of male primates. Yet these ridges are 
already human rather than anthropoid in character. 
The slope of the forehead is as great as it is in some of 
the apes. In this quality, in its marked metopic ridges, 
its narrowness, and also in its anterior flare and relative 
smallness as a whole, posteriorly the Rhodesian frontal 
approaches closer to the frontal of the Pithecanthropus; 
though the ridges of the Rhodesian skull are much the 
heavier. 
The study of the specimen leaves an impression of 
anamorphism. It is a combination of pre-Neanderthaloid, 
Neanderthaloid, and recent characters. It is not a 
Neanderthaler; it represents a different race or at least 
variety. 
The specimen does not seem to belong in its surround- 
ings. It does not fit with any of the other human remains, 
skeletal or cultural, saved from the cave. It does not fit 
with anything, the Negro in particular, found thus far 
in Africa. 
It seems impossible to conceive of the specimen as a 
reversion. Reversions tend as a rule to manifest them- 
selves in a single character or in a small group of asso- 
ciated characters. The primitive conditions of the 
Rhodesian skull are more comprehensive. 
It seems equally impossible to regard the strain of man 
represented by the skull as a survival to recent time. 
There is nothing in anthropological knowledge that 
would support such an assumption. Yet the diminishing 
third molars, the shape and size of the other teeth, 
the extensive caries, and other points, speak against hoary 
antiquity. 
The Rhodesian skull is a tantalizing specimen to the 
student, who is wholly at a loss as to just where it be- 
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