HUMAN LIFE 



amounting in all to a very informing 

 quantity of indubitable human remains, 

 have been discovered and exhaustively 

 studied, with the result of revealing the 

 certain existence of man in Europe all 

 through Pleistocene Time, or at least 

 from the first interglacial period of the 

 Pleistocene Age up to that comparatively 

 modern time when the archaeologist and 

 later the historian takes up the story of 

 human kind. 



The careful study of all these Pleisto- 

 cene relics of early man's body has en- 

 abled anthropologists to distinguish cer- 

 tain successive types of prehistoric man 

 differing in some measure structurally 

 and evolutionally, so that an older 

 type, like Neanderthal man, distinctly 

 shows stronger simian characters such as 

 smaller brain case and more projecting 

 orbital ridges, less chin and more jaw, 

 more curving thigh bones and more 

 opposed great toe, than a later type like 

 Cro-Magnon man. And the exhaustive 

 study of the collected thousands of speci- 

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