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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er, we are perfectlysafe against erring on the side of diminution in taking this as the small-est capacity of any adult male human brain. The only adult male brain,weighing as little as 970 grammes, is that of an idiot; but the brainof an adult woman, against the soundness of whose faculties nothingappears, weighed as little as 907 grammes (55.3 cubic inches of water) ;and Reid gives an adult female brain of still smaller capacity. Theheaviest brain (1872 grammes, or about 115 cubic inches) was, however,that of a woman: next to it comes the brain of Cuvier (1861 grammes),then Byron (1807 grammes), and then an insane person (1783 grammes).The lightest adult brain recorded (720 grammes) was that of an idioticfemale. The brains of five children, four years old, weighed between1275 and 992 grammes. So that it may be safely said, that an averageEuropean child of four years old has a brain twice as large as that of anadult Gorilla. 62 MANS PLACE IN NATURE attsthaiiIAn; CHRYSOTHMX. GORILI^A.
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CYNOCEPHAJXS. MYCETHa. liUMUBt. Fig. 17.—Sections of the sknlls of Man and various Apes, drawn soas to give the cerebral cavity the same length in each case, thereby dis- RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS 63 playing the varying proportions of the facial bones. The line & indicatesthe plane of the tentorium, which separates the cerebrum from the cere-bellum; d, the axis of the occipital outlet of the skull. The extent ofcerebral cavity behind c, which is a perpendicular erected on 6 at thepoint where the tentorium is attached posteriorly, indicates the degreeto which the cerebrum overlaps the cerebellum — the space occupied bywhich is roughly indicated by the dark shading. In comparing these dia-grams, it must be recollected, that figures on so small a scale as thesesimply exemplify the statements in the text, the proof of which is to befound in the objects themselves. themselves by nearly one-third, the maximum capacity being 34.5cubic inches, the minimum 24 cubic inches;

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