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FIG. 29. Complete Skull and Jaw of Eoanthropus 

 Dawsoni. One-third the natural diameter. The 

 parts indicated by dotted lines are re-constructed. 

 The rest is drawn from the actual bones discovered 

 at Piltdown. 



FlG. 30. The complete Skull and Jaw of a young 

 Chimpanzee. Drawn of one-half the natural 

 diameter in order to compare with Fig. 29, 

 representing the adult skull of Eoanthropus, 

 reduced to about the same size. 



which of these 

 remains are of 

 animals which 

 were the con- 

 temporaries of 

 Eoanthropus, 

 all we can say 

 is that Eoan- 

 thropus, the 

 creature whose 

 jaw was found 

 at Piltdown, 

 may have lived 

 as late as the 

 latest or as 

 early as the 

 earliest of the 

 animals whose 

 remains are 

 associated with 

 it. The Eoan- 

 t h r o p us r e- 

 mains are not 

 so heavily 

 mineralized, it 

 seems to me, 

 as are the frag- 

 ments of teeth 

 of M iocene 

 age found with 

 them. At the 

 same time, we 

 have no ground 

 for assuming 

 that this crea- 



