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reduced to one-third of the size of nature. A small 

 additional amount of flattening and lengthening, 

 with a corresponding increase of the supraciliary 



FIG. 31. An Australian skull from Western Port, in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, with the contour 

 of the Neanderthal skulL Both reduced to one-third the 

 natural size. 



ridge, would convert the Australian brain case 

 into a form identical with that of the aberrant 

 fossil. 



And now, to return to the fossil skulls, and to 

 the rank which they occupy among, or beyond, 



