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little room for doubt that the men of Spy fabri- 

 cated the palaeolithic implements, and were the 

 contemporaries of the characteristic quaternary 

 quadrupeds, found with them. The anatomical 

 characters of the skeletons bear out conclusions 

 which are not flattering to the appearance of the 

 owners. They were short of stature but power- 

 fully built, with strong, curiously-curved, thigh- 

 bones, the lower ends of which are so fashioned 

 that they must have walked with a bend at the 

 knees. Their long depressed skulls had very 

 strong brow ridges ; their lower jaws, of brutal 

 depth and solidity, sloped away from the teeth 

 downwards and backwards, in consequence of the 

 absence of that especially characteristic feature of 

 the higher type of man, the chin prominence. 

 Thus these skulls are not only eminently " Nean- 

 derthaloid," but they supply the proof that the 

 parts wanting in the original specimen harmonised 

 in lowness of type with the rest. 



After a very full discussion of the anatomical 

 characters of these skulls, M. Fraipont says : 



To sum up, we consider ourselves to be in a position to say 

 that, having regard merely to the anatomical structure of the 

 man of Spy, he possessed a greater number of pithecoid charac- 

 ters than any other race of mankind. 1 



And after enumerating these he continues : 

 The other and much more numerous characters of the skull, of 



1 Fraipont et Lohest. ."La Race humainede Neanderthal, on 

 de Canstatt, en Belgique," Archives de Biologic, 1886. 



