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ture made either the earlier or the later type of flint 

 implements found with it, or was capable of such 

 manufacture. I see no reason for supposing, what- 

 ever may be the age which we may have to attribute 

 to Eoanthropus, that that creature was capable of 

 flaking flints to a desired shape or of making fire 

 or had developed the use of articulate speech. Nor 

 is there any evidence to show that the humanly cut 

 elephant-bone recently found at Piltdown by Mr. 

 Dawson was cut by Eoanthropus. It is more probable 

 that this was done by a more highly developed creature 

 of the genus Homo. In fact, the only ground which at 

 present justifies the association of Eoanthropus with the 

 Hominidae or human series rather than with the Simiidae 

 or ape series — derived from a common ancestry — is the 

 man-like rather than ape-like size of the brain, which we 

 must attribute to Eoanthropus on the assumption, which 

 is at present a reasonable one, that the half-jaw and 

 the incomplete skull found near each other at Piltdown 

 are parts of the same individual.^ 



^ But see foot-note on p. 284. 



