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chapters, on the differences and likenesses between apes 

 and man and the probable steps of the transition from 

 ape to man, may assist the reader to form a judgment 

 as to the importance of such remains of extinct races 

 of men as the skeleton of the Sainte Chapelle, the 

 Heidelberg jaw, and the Piltdown jaw and cranium 

 lately dug up in Sussex, in helping us to further 

 knowledge of those steps. It should be definitely noted 

 that we have not yet found any extinct animals, definitely 

 to be classed as apes, which come nearer to man than 

 the chimpanzee and gorilla, although we are led to 

 infer that such creatures existed, and that their fossil 

 remains will probably some day be discovered. On 

 the other hand, we have in the jaw and skull recently 

 discovered in the gravel of Piltdown, in Sussex, evidence 

 of a man-like creature which was in most important 

 features more ape-like than any fossil man yet dis- 

 covered. 



