THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



men were clearing out an old cave. They found 

 an old and partly decayed skeleton. A phy- 

 sician, Dr. Fuhlrott, happened along and saved as 

 many of these bones as he could obtain. In this 

 way they reached a museum, and they are now 

 on exhibition in the Provincial Museum of Bonn. 

 [The student is especially surprised by the con^ 

 Istruction of the skull of this man, which is very 

 flat in the part directly above the brain, and 

 has thick and unsightly bumps right over the 

 cavities of the eyes. Even the lowest Australian 

 has no such bumps on his forehead to-day. 



For a long time the genuineness of this dis- 

 covery was doubted, and no correct conclusions 

 could be formed because the experts could not 

 agree on the period to which this Neander Val- 

 ley skull should be assigned. Some even doubted 

 whether this man was really very old and whether 

 he could have been a contemporary of the mam- 

 moth. Rudolph Virchow then took part in the 

 discussion and claimed that whatever might be 

 the antiquity of these bones, and granting that 

 they might be genuine bones of a contemporary 

 of the mammoth, they certainly did not belong to 

 a normal man, but rather to one who was dis- 

 eased. The divergence from the present human 

 type was attributed to the effects of disease. It 



