188 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 
A committee of twelve naturalists was appointed to 
report upon Dubois’ find. Of this committee three 
asserted the bones to be those of a low-grade man, 
three insisted that they belonged to a high ape, of a 
type somewhat higher than any we know to-day, but 
still distinctly an ape. Six members of the commit- 
tee of twelve agreed that the remains were those of a 
creature higher than an ape and lower than any nor- 
mal man, and represented, in their opinion, a stage 
distinctly along the line of development out of the 
apes and into man. 
This so-called ‘Java find” is known in science by 
the name of Pithecanthropus, which means the ape- 
man. Whether we look upon this fossil as a serious 
find or not, it is very certain that in the caves of 
Europe belonging to the Quaternary period we find 
abundant evidences of primitive man. The older these 
evidences are, the more likely they are to be dis- 
tinctly below the grade of man of to-day, in the ‘size 
and shape of the brain case and in the length and 
massiveness of the jaw. 
There are probably more races than one repre- 
sented among these skulls. Some of them are surely 
well-deserving of the title of low brow. Their heavy 
ridges over the eyes, their small foreheads, their mas- 
sive, heavy-set jaws show a race of men far less en- 
dowed mentally and much better endowed in the 
