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simian feature which has persisted in modern races to 
a greater degree than in this peculiar Pleistocene species 
of man. 
Indeed, were one to summarise the influences which 
have led anatomists to give up the Neanderthal type as 
an ancestral form of man, and to reg^ard it as an extinct 
Fig. 51. — Drawing of the palate uf the (Jibraltai skull. 
and separate species of humanity, Dr AdlofTs writings 
must be given an important place, second only to the 
influence exercised by Professor Schwalbe's early publica- 
tions,^ No doubt the change in our attitude towards 
Neanderthal man was also afi^ected by Hauser's discoveries 
at Le Moustier and at Combe Capelle, and by the 
inference which Professor Klaatsch drew from these 
1 See reference, p. 123. 
