. Anthropoid apes. Apes. 138 ANTHEOPOID APES. is contradicted by the wide diffusion of this charac- teristic, even in modern times. And it is doubtful whether platycnemy is absolutely restricted to the lower races. At Janischewek, Virchow found an extremely platycnemic tibia, exhumed from a kuja- wish grave of the Stone Age, which belonged to a skull remarkable for its unusual beauty and size, so that, taken by itself, the impression which it gave to an anatomist was that of a highly organized race* It is important to remark that platycnemy has. Fig. 43. Section through a platycnemic tibia fro
. Anthropoid apes. Apes. 138 ANTHEOPOID APES. is contradicted by the wide diffusion of this charac- teristic, even in modern times. And it is doubtful whether platycnemy is absolutely restricted to the lower races. At Janischewek, Virchow found an extremely platycnemic tibia, exhumed from a kuja- wish grave of the Stone Age, which belonged to a skull remarkable for its unusual beauty and size, so that, taken by itself, the impression which it gave to an anatomist was that of a highly organized race* It is important to remark that platycnemy has. Fig. 43. Section through a platycnemic tibia from Cro-Magnon. Fig. 44. Section througii the tibia of a male gorilla. Fig. 45. Section through the tibia of a male chimpanzee. been regarded as a pithecoid structure, and for this reason the attempt has been made to establish the degraded position of those peoples which are most remarkable for platycnemy. But, as Boyd-Dawkins has already observed, although the tibiae of the gorilla and the chimpanzee are to some extent platycnemic, they are much less so than the platyc- nemic bones of the human skeleton. The tibia of * Bitsiungsbericht der Berliner Anthropologischen Oesellschaft: April 17, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hartmann, Robert, 1832-1893. New York, D. Appleton and Co.
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