328 The American Naturalist. [April, 
Liége, viz.: that there dwelt in Europe during paleolithic times, 
a race of men which possessed a greater number of simioid 
characteristics than any which has been discovered elsewhere. 
The important discovery in the grotto of Spy, of two skeletons, 
almost complete, served to unify knowledge of this race, which 
had previously rested on isolated fragments only. These skel- 
etons proved what had been previously only surmised, that the — 
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skeleton of Neanderthal, the lower jaw of Naulette, and the 
crania of Cannstadt, belong to one and the same race. The 
simian characters of these parts of the skeleton are well known. 
These are the enormous superciliary ridges and glabella; the 
retreating frontal region; the thickness of the cranial wall; 
e massive mandibular ramus with rudimentary chin,and the — 
large size of the posterior molars. MM. Fraipont and Lohest — 
have added other very important characters to these, viz: the — 
tibia shorter than in any other known human race; the sig- 
moid flexure of the femur; the divergent curvature of the 
bones of the fore-arm, and a very peculiar form of the posterior — 
face of the mandibular symphysis. Of these characters Ma 
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Fic. 2.—Outlines of calvaria of the Neanderthal man in solid line; of the Spy man * 
no. Lin dots; and of the Spy man No. 2 in broken line. From Fraipont and Lohest. 
oe and Lohest write as follows: : 
I.—The prominent superciliary crests, which are character- 
istic of the Cannstadt race. No existing race presents such 4 
’ Archives Belges de Biologie, VII, 1886, p. 731, Gand. 
