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derthal and Spy type. 1 The fact that this re- 

 semblance exists is of none the less importance 

 because the proper interpretation of it is not yet 

 clear. It may be taken to be a pretty sure 

 indication of the physiological continuity of the 

 blond long-heads with the pleistocene Neander- 

 thaloid men. But this continuity may have been 

 brought about in two ways. The blond long- 

 heads may exhibit one of the lines of evolution of 

 the men of the Neanderthaloid type. Or, the 

 Frisians may be the result of the admixture of 

 the blond long-heads with Neanderthaloid men ; 

 whose remains have been found at Canstatt and 

 at Gibraltar, as well as at Spy and in the valley 

 of the Neander ; and who, therefore, seem, at one 

 time, to have occupied a considerable area in 

 Western Europe. The same alternatives present 

 themselves when Neanderthaloid characters appear 

 in skulls of other races. If these characters belong 

 to a stage in the development of the human 

 species, antecedent to the differentiation of any of 

 the existing races, we may expect to find them in 

 the lowest of these races, all over the world, and 

 in the early stages of all races. I have already 

 referred to the remarkable similarity of the skulls 

 of certain tribes of native Australians to the 



1 Virchow Beitrdge zur pTiysischen Anthropologie der DeutscJien 

 (Alh. der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 

 1876). See particularly p. 238 for the full recognition of the 

 Neanderthaloid characters of Frisian skulls and of the ethno- 

 logical significance of the similarity. 



