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the thigh bone of a man of the modern type and of a 
gorilla — as a sample to stand for the rest of the skeleton. 
It will be seen at a glance that the Neanderthal thigh • 
bone does manifest in its shape and general conforma- 
tion a more simian character than the thigh bone of 
modern man. In the case of the tibia or leg bone 
anthropoid affinities are even more marked. 
MODERN. 
NEANDERTHAL. GORH-UA. 
Fig. 55.— The Neanderthal (Spy) thigh bone contrasted with the 
corresponding bones of modern man and the gorilla. 
A survey of the characters of Neanderthal man — as 
manifested by his skeleton, brain cast, and teeth — have 
convinced anthropologists of two things : first, that we 
are dealing with a form of man totally different from 
any form now living ; and secondly, that the kind of 
difference far exceeds that which separates the most 
divergent of modern human races. If we were dealing 
with a fossil animal which lay outside the pale of humanity 
