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an absolutely impossible condition. The mistake 

 had been made similar to that in 1887, of putting 

 a chimpanzee face on a human skull." And he also 

 states that the cubic capacity was one thousand 

 five hundred and sixty cubic centimeters, in other 

 words, that it was a very large skull, whilst the 

 authors of the paper say that it was " at least one 

 thousand and seventy cubic centimeters," a very 

 great discrepancy in description. Whichever may 

 be right, it is clear that it is a human skull with 

 which we have to do, and (1915) it now seems to 

 be accepted as a skull in no essential way differing 

 from modern examples. Far more remarkable 

 features attach to the mandible, and that may 

 be considered in connection with another speci- 

 men which it somewhat resembles, namely, 



The Heidelburg Jaw. Found near the place after 

 which it was named, and first described in 1908, 

 this jaw and that found at Piltdown resemble each 

 other, in being more like a simian jaw than any 

 others associated with human beings ; yet both 

 of them are believed to be human in their char- 

 acter, chiefly because the teeth are obviously 

 human. What is still more remarkable is that they 

 are actually more like the teeth of the higher races 

 of man to-day, and less like the teeth of apes 

 than are the teeth of some of the savage human 

 races of to-day. This has been stated by Sollas of 

 the Heidelburg jaw, and the teeth of the Piltdown 

 specimen are claimed as definitely human. In some 

 accounts of this specimen it is stated that the 

 anatomical conditions point to the inability of 

 the former possessor of the jaw to speak, but this 



