The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ^ humanbrain or cranial cast. It pre-sents a much closer analogy tothe condition found in the castsof skulls of the Xeanderthalseries (more especially the Grib-raltar, Xeanderthal, and LaQuina casts) than in those ofany more recent varieties ofman. But it suggests also theparamedian ridge formed bythe anterior j^art of the superiorfrontal convolution in the an-thropoid apes, the prominenceof which is due in part to thefalling away of the ill-deve-loped lateral part of the pre-frontal area. If these tentative suggestions are justified,
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ^ humanbrain or cranial cast. It pre-sents a much closer analogy tothe condition found in the castsof skulls of the Xeanderthalseries (more especially the Grib-raltar, Xeanderthal, and LaQuina casts) than in those ofany more recent varieties ofman. But it suggests also theparamedian ridge formed bythe anterior j^art of the superiorfrontal convolution in the an-thropoid apes, the prominenceof which is due in part to thefalling away of the ill-deve-loped lateral part of the pre-frontal area. If these tentative suggestions are justified, this small fi*agmentaffords further corroboration of the opinion that I expressed to the endocranial cast of the Piltdown skull: namely,that it presents features which are more distinctlyprimitive and ape-like than those of any other memberof the human family at present available for V a = paramedian eminence ; h = de-pressed area at the lateral borderof the eminence ; c = part of thefronto-orbital margin.] Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LXXlll, Pl. I.
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