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158'7 centims., but, neglecting {cL), I am inclined to take the best value as 
157'5 centims. Hahox gives 159'2 centims. Maxouvrier {loc. cit., jd. 391) is 
inclined from the general character of the bones to consider the stature as deter¬ 
mined from the ulna and radius to be the better estimate, and even thinks this 
troglodyte may have been 165 centims. Judging, however, from other primitive 
races, I should expect the arm bone estimate to exaggerate the stature, and prefer 
my estimate of 157'5 centims. 
Mem of Laugerie. —All we know here is the length of the femur = 45'1 centims. 
The probable stature is accordingly 166’1 centims. Topinard gives it as 
168’5 centims., and Rahon at 164’9 centims. 
Taking the mean of the best values for the above five cases we have :— 
Probable stature of palaeolithic man = 162’7 centims. All the above cases are 
supposed to be males. Considering that it is more probably the massive bones which 
have survived, we must hold that palaeolithic man was shorter than the modern 
French population, but was taller than the men of Southern Italy (156 centim.s. 
to 158 centims.), and about the mean height of the modern Italian male population, 
i.e., 162’4 centims. 
(14.) Neolithic Man, 
(a.) Great Britain. 
We have not very much data to build upon here. Dr. Beddoe* gives the length 
of twenty-five male and five female femora. Converted into centimetres, we have 
Male F (25), 45’72 centims. hence probable stature \ male, 167’3 centims. 
Female F (5), 41’53 ,, from (a) female, 153’6 ,, 
Dr. Beddoe’s estimates, male 170’2 centims., and female 156’3 centims., are, I 
thiuk, much too hio;h. The sex-ratio is 1’089. 
(h.) France and Belgium. 
The following data have been drawn from Bahon {loc. cit., pp. 418 et seq.), the 
numbers in brackets in the left-hand corners denoting the numbers upon which the 
average lengths of the bones are based. 
F. 
H. 
T. 
R. 
(127) 
(127) 
(133) 
(49) 
Male. 
4:3-99 
31-085 
35-87 
23-54 
(53) 
(79) 
(45) 
(18) 
Female. 
40-105 
28-58 
33-11 
21-76 
* ‘ Joui’nal of the Anthropological In.stitute,’ vol. 17, 1887, p. 209. 
