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Figs. 9 and 10). According to Topinard the average capacity 



of the skull of a 



Male European = 1400 ccm. 

 Male Gorilla = 498 



Female Gorilla = 458 



Male Chimpanzee = 409 

 Female Chimpanzee = 392 

 Male Orang = 426 



Female Orang = 406 



FIG. ii. Female Australian. FIG. 12. Microcephalous skull. 



Skulls of anthropoids and of the lower races of man. (From the Corresp.-Blatt 

 f. Anthrop., Ethnol. und Urgesch. 1877.) 



Ranke, 1 taking the capacity of the skulls of a male and female 

 European (Bavarian) respectively at 1503 and 1325, states it to 

 be an established fact that the absolute cubic content of the 

 female skull is less than that of the male. In all the higher 

 races of man, the inferior height and arch of the female skull, 



1 Ranke, Der Mensch, ist edition, i., 293. 



