52 THE STRUCTURE OF MAN 
but the whole skeleton is remarkable for its delicacy, a character 
which, according to Virchow, distinguishes a number of the wild 
races inhabiting the islands of the East. The skull is on the 
average 200 gr. hghter than that of the European; it is very 
small, and the cranial capacity in the pure (unmixed) Veddah 
male is at most 1250 cubic cm., and in the female some 140 
cubic cm. less than that. 
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Fic. 35.—SKULL OF A YOUNG a 
ORANG-UTAN. Fia. 86.—SKULL OF AN ADULT ORANG-UTAN. 
(One-third natural size.) (One-third natural size.) 
In cranial capacity the Veddahs are undoubtedly among the 
lowest of human beings, and this is quite in keeping with their 
low level of civilisation. The woolly-haired inhabitants of the 
Andaman islands are on approximately the same level, whereas 
the Bushmen and Australians rank somewhat higher. 
In shape the Veddah’s skull is very long and narrow, 1. 
strongly dolicocephalic. The cranium of the female is more 
rounded than that of the male—indeed, all the peculiarities 
which in the European distinguish the skull of the woman from 
that of the man are present in the Veddahs. 
But while there is a difference of from 250 to more than 
500 cubic cm. in the cranial capacity of the Veddah and 
the European, a far greater disparity occurs between the cranial 
1 [In the Akkas (the pygmy race of Central Africa), the cranial capacity of the 
skull of a male recently described by Sir W. Flower is 1102 cubic cm., and that of a 
female 1072 cubic cm. The same writer has, however, described the skull of a female 
Veddah, having a capacity of but 950 cubic cm., that being one of the smallest normal 
adult human skulls on record (cf. Jour. of the Anthropological Instit., vol. xviii. p. 6).] 
