. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. re by Sir Charles Lyell; upon whose high authority I shall takeit for granted, that the Engis skull belonged to a contemporaryof the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) and of the woolly Rhino-ceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus), with the bones of which it wasfound associated; and that the Neanderthal skull is of great,though uncertain, antiquity. Whatever be the geological age ofthe latter skull, I conceive it is quite safe (on the ordinary prin-ciples of paleontological reasoning) to assume that the former FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 91 takes us to,
. Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays. re by Sir Charles Lyell; upon whose high authority I shall takeit for granted, that the Engis skull belonged to a contemporaryof the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) and of the woolly Rhino-ceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus), with the bones of which it wasfound associated; and that the Neanderthal skull is of great,though uncertain, antiquity. Whatever be the geological age ofthe latter skull, I conceive it is quite safe (on the ordinary prin-ciples of paleontological reasoning) to assume that the former FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 91 takes us to, at least, the further side of the vague biological limit,which separates the present geological epoch from that whichimmediately preceded it. And there can be no doubt that thephysical geography of Europe has changed wonderfully, since thebones of Men and Mammoths, Hysenas and Rhinoceroses werewashed pell-mell into the cave of Engis. The skull from the cave of Engis was originally discovered byProfessor Schmerling, and was described by him, together with. Fig. 23.—The skull from the cave of Engis — viewed from the rightside. One half the size of nature, a glabella, h occipital protuberance(a to 6 glabello-occipital line), c auditory foramen. other human remains disinterred at the same time, in his valuablework, Recherches sur les Ossemens fossiles decouverts dans lesCavernes de la Province de Liege, published in 1833 (p. 59, etseq.), from which the following paragraphs are extracted, theprecise expressions of the author being, as far as possible, pre-served. In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, whichare in my possession, are characterised, like the thousands of bones which ^2 MANS PLACE IN NAO^URE. I have lately been disinterr^n?, 6y the extent of the decomposition whichthey have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinctspecies: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded,as is frequently found to be the case in fo
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