Identifier: mansplaceinnatur01huxl (find matches)
Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Europeans
Publisher: New York, J. A. Hill and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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interior of the skull. Dr. Euhlrott replied, with a courtesy and readiness for whichI am infinitely indebted to him, to my inquiries, and further-more sent three excellent photographs. One of these gives a sideview of the skull, and from it Eig. 25 A has been shaded. Thesecond (Eig. 26 A) exhibits the wide openings of the frontalsinuses upon the inferior surface of the frontal part of the skull,into which, Dr. Euhlrott writes, a probe may be introduced to thedepth of an inch, and demonstrates the great extension of tl^e FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 105 thickened supraciliary ridges beyond the cerebral cavity. Thethird, lastly (Fig. 26 B), exhibits the edge and the interiorof the posterior, or occipital, part of the skull, and shows veryclearly the two depressions for the lateral sinuses, sweeping in-wards towards the middle line of the roof of the skull, to form thelongitudinal sinus. It was clear, therefore, that I had not erredin my interpretation, and that the posterior lobe of the brain
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Fig. 25.—The skull from the Neanderthal cavern. A, side, B, front,and C, top view. One half the natural size. The outlines from camera of the Neanderthal man must have been as much flattened as Isuspected it to be. In truth, the Neanderthal cranium has most extraordinary char-acters. It has an extreme length of 8 inches, while its breadthis only 5.75 inches, or, in other words, its length is to its breadth 106 MANS PLACE IN NATURE as 100 : Y2. It is exceedingly depressed, measuring only about3.4 inches from the glabello-occipital line to the vertex. Thelongitudinal arc, measured in the same way as in the Engis skull,is 12 inches; the transverse arc cannot be exactly ascertained, inconsequence of the absence of the temporal bones, but was prob-ably about the same, and certainly exceeded 10^ inches. Thehorizontal circumference is 23 inches. But this great circum-ference arises largely from the vast development of the supra-ciliary ridges, though the perimeter of the brain case itself

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