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at it. This would at least for a moment or two check and 

 puzzle his adversary.* 



There is no need of entering into discussion 

 here about the Piltdown skull and the Heidelberg 

 jaw. 7 The former is clearly a human skull, be- 

 neath which our evolutionary reconstructionists 

 painted the face of a chimpanzee, and so, accord- 

 ing to Professor Keith, 8 produced an impossible 

 animal that could neither breathe nor eat. 

 Klaatsch, Hertwig, Macnamara, Branco, 

 Schwalbe and others equally rejected this recon- 

 structed "Pilt-down man." Part of a jaw was 

 likewise found at Piltdown which resembles the 

 Heidelberg jaw, and both are believed to be 

 human, while the teeth in them are said to be less 

 ape-like than those of some of the savage races of 

 our day. The massive development of the Hei- 

 delberg lower jaw was paralleled by Wasmann in 

 a modern Eskimo skull. 9 The similarity is noted 

 also by Kramberger. So, too, the Piltdown skull 

 is not inferior to the skulls of men living now. As 

 for the evolutionary theory of a missing link, 

 nothing is proved by these specimens. The same 

 may be said of every other specimen. Sir Bertram 

 Windle appositely quotes the words of Virchow, 

 spoken at the twentieth congress of the German 



""Prehistoric Man," p. 29. 



7 See Windle, "A Century of Scientific Thought," pp. 188, 191. 



'"Ancient Types of Man." 



'"Modern Biology," pp. 506, 507. 



