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preserved,-^ 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 Forrcr, " Urgfschiilite dcs Europairs." 



FkTURE 19. Tlu- Cranium of the Pithecanthropus Erectns witli Tooth 

 and Thigh bone. 



powers of articulate speech were somewhat limited.-'' 

 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 



-■» See figure 19. 



iisLull, op. cU., p. 378. 



