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; ! <!,-' iM-raiisr from these >| M-riim-ns \v<> arc able 

 to ren.n-tnict the hcin-- and to say with assurance that 

 his walk was erect in man like po-tun-, that he had 

 mental power considerably above the ape, and that his 



Viam forrrr. " Urjcwhirhta dr EuropSUn." 



KI..I-KK 19. Tin- Crsiiiiuin of tlio Pithecanthropus Erectus with Tooth 

 and Thigh bone. 



powers of articulate speech were somewhat limited. 25 

 This man stood halfway between the anthropoid and the 

 most primitive of existing men. Years before, the Ger- 

 man naturalist Haeckel, had applied the name Pithecan- 

 thropus, the ape-man, to a hypothetical form which would 



"See figure 10. 25 Lull, op. cit., p. 378. 



