. The Open court. Front View of the Supraorbital Schwalbe. politics and reactionary in science, advised caution and declaredthat these bones might be the remains of an imbecile and degen-erate individual. Professor Virchow claimed tiiat no conclusion could be drawnfrom one isolated instance; but in the meantime other skeletonsand skulls of a similar type have been discovered, which prove thatthe Neanderthal man was not an isolated individual, but the repre-sentative of a race that must have inhabited the caves of Europe IThe fracture in the right temporal region is plainly visible
. The Open court. Front View of the Supraorbital Schwalbe. politics and reactionary in science, advised caution and declaredthat these bones might be the remains of an imbecile and degen-erate individual. Professor Virchow claimed tiiat no conclusion could be drawnfrom one isolated instance; but in the meantime other skeletonsand skulls of a similar type have been discovered, which prove thatthe Neanderthal man was not an isolated individual, but the repre-sentative of a race that must have inhabited the caves of Europe IThe fracture in the right temporal region is plainly visible and is obviously due to a vigor-ous blow which, however, may have been made at the disinterment. A groove is visible over the extreme part of the right eye, slanting over the supraorbitalridge, and ending in an incision. These marks have been the object of much discussion. Theincision appears to be the passage for the supraorbital nerve, for it has its analogon, although ina much weaker form, on the right side; b
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