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preserved, 24 because from these specimens we are able 

 to reconstruct the being and to say with assurance that 

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

 mental power considerably above the ape, and that his 



From Forrer, " Urgescliichte des Europaers." 



FIGURE 19. The Cranium of the Pithecanthropus Erectus with Tooth 

 and Thigh bone. 



powers of articulate speech were somewhat limited. 23 

 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 



24 See figure 19. 



-5 Lull, op. cit., p. 378. 



