332 ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 



which the Neanderthal man lived, are remarkable for the 

 stoutness of their limb bones. 



In no sense, then, can the Neanderthal bones be regarded 



Fio. 31. Ancient Danish skull from a tumulus nt Borreby ; on<vthird 

 of the natural size. From a camera lucida drawing by Mr. Busk. 



as the remains of a human being intermediate between Men 

 and Apes. At most, they demonstrate the existence of a 

 man whose skull may be said to revert somewhat towards 

 the pithecoid type just as a Carrier, or a Pouter, or a 

 Tumbler, may sometimes put on the plumage of its primitive 



