. The literary digest. Says M. Cligny, FIG. 4- ?ethnical scale. Was it a monkey or a man?summing up the evidence : The skull is that of a primate ; no doubt on this point is possi-ble. It was surely an adult. The skull is extraordinarily large for that of a monkeyand extraordinarily smallfor that of a man. . .We seem to have strucka mean between the twolimits that we havedrawn between ape and man In a word, the Javafossil resembles in forma pithecoid [ape-like]human skull, but it dif-fers from this by the sur-prising intensity of its. Fig. 5.—M. ilanouviers Restoration of theJava skull. simian
. The literary digest. Says M. Cligny, FIG. 4- ?ethnical scale. Was it a monkey or a man?summing up the evidence : The skull is that of a primate ; no doubt on this point is possi-ble. It was surely an adult. The skull is extraordinarily large for that of a monkeyand extraordinarily smallfor that of a man. . .We seem to have strucka mean between the twolimits that we havedrawn between ape and man In a word, the Javafossil resembles in forma pithecoid [ape-like]human skull, but it dif-fers from this by the sur-prising intensity of its. Fig. 5.—M. ilanouviers Restoration of theJava skull. simian characteristics, especially by its height If this primate was a man, it was a man of bestial appearance ;as to the cranial capacity, it obliges us to choose between threehypotheses : Either the pithecanthropus, to give it its name, was a creature•of little height, a dwarf; ... or it was microcephalous [small-
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