THE HUMAN SKULL 149 



III. The skull belongs to a primitive human 

 race, but is connected by intermediate forms 

 (neanderthaloid) with the lowest existing primitive 

 races. 



1. Shows similarity to Australians. Hux- 

 ley, Lyell, C. Vogt (at one time), Quatrefages 

 and Hamy. 



2. Belongs to the oldest palaeontological 

 dolichocephalic race, the Cannstatt race.* 

 Hamy, Quatrefages and Hamy. 



IV. It belongs to a race differing widely from 

 existing races, the Neanderthal race. Schaaf- 

 hausen, Fraipont and de Lohest, de Mortillet, 

 Sergi. 



V. The skull belongs to a form which differs 

 specifically and perhaps generically from all recent 

 human races. King, Cope, Schwalbe. I need not 

 comment upon the impossibility of founding any 

 certain arguments on a skull concerning which 

 scientific men have so much differed, and con- 

 cerning which some of them have even maintained 

 at different times wholly different theses.t 



Yet, in the most recent text-book on Zoology, t 

 I find the following statement : " Man is not 

 known fossil till the Pleistocene. He is there repre- 

 sented by H. sapiens, and by an extinct species, 

 H. primigenius, Schwalbe, (neandertbalensis) from 

 the Neanderthal (1856), from Spy (1885), and 

 from Krapina in Croatia (about 1899), anc ^ possibly 



* According- to Deniker, there are no data which make it 

 possible to assign any date to the Cannstatt skull. 



t See p. 191 for the latest views on this much-debated skull. 

 By Adam Sedgwick, 1904. 



