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left frontal lobes of the brain, is not a rare occurrence in 
even modern skulls. In the reconstruction of the Pilt- 
down skull, shown in fig. 132, the frontal projection is 
so placed as to pass 15 mm. to the right of the middle 
line of the vault. At the hinder end of the reconstruc- 
tion it will be seen that I have placed the lambda 15 mm. 
in front of the occiput. A fragment, at least 15 mm. in 
extent, is missing from the hinder end of the left parietal 
bone just in front of the lambda. In so thick a skull it 
is probable that the lambda was situated as far forwards 
as is shown in fig. 132. 
The similarity of the Piltdown and Egyptian skulls, 
seen in the reconstructions represented in fig. 132, leaves 
us in no doubt that in both cases the head was built on 
similar lines — at least as regards the part of the cranium 
containing the brain. In actual width the Piltdown is 
the greater, because of the thickness of the bones ; the 
brain chamber in both is approximately of the same 
width. As we have already seen. Professor Elliot Smith's 
determination of the middle line of the vault is slightly 
different from that shown in the preceding illustrations. 
In fig. 133 are reproduced corresponding drawings made 
from Dr Smith Woodward's original reconstruction and 
a reconstruction made with the parts placed on the middle 
line of the vault as identified by Professor Elliot Smith. 
In the latter reconstruction (fig. 133, B) the middle line is 
only a few millimetres to the left of that represented in 
the Piltdown reconstruction shown in fig. 132. In each 
case the size and form of the skull as viewed from above 
are those we are familiar with in modern skulls. On the 
other hand, the upper aspect of the skull of Eoanthropus, 
as originally modelled by Dr Smith Woodward, is 
altogether peculiar in its form. It is wide and short, 
the malar processes on each side of the forehead appear 
projecting, almost as in apes, while the temporal lines 
converge towards the middle line, somewhat after the 
manner seen in the skulls of young anthropoids (fig. 134). 
With the correct apposition of parts all those peculiar 
features disappear, and the characters seen in modern 
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