An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . J2; MQUSTERIAN TYPE OF 5KULL. T. SnuLL OF AN AUSTRALIAN Sn. COMPARISON OF CRANIA Figure 21. Comparison of Crania. canthropus skull with its low arch. We can now com-pare the Pithecanthropus, Neanderthal, and Mousteriancrania with the skull of an ape and a man. Fignire 21shows this comparison and illustrates how these dis-coveries have partially filled the gaps in the descent ofman. In 1907 a human jaw of great antiquity was discoveredin the sands of the ^^lauer Eiver near Heidelberg. Thisjaw lay in undisturbed stratifie
An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . J2; MQUSTERIAN TYPE OF 5KULL. T. SnuLL OF AN AUSTRALIAN Sn. COMPARISON OF CRANIA Figure 21. Comparison of Crania. canthropus skull with its low arch. We can now com-pare the Pithecanthropus, Neanderthal, and Mousteriancrania with the skull of an ape and a man. Fignire 21shows this comparison and illustrates how these dis-coveries have partially filled the gaps in the descent ofman. In 1907 a human jaw of great antiquity was discoveredin the sands of the ^^lauer Eiver near Heidelberg. Thisjaw lay in undisturbed stratified sand at the deiith ofabout sixty-nine feet from the summit of the deposit.^^It is very different from that of the modern man, beingwide, low, massive, and devoid of a chin, features in -• Hcc figure 2-. 66 SOCIAL EVOLUTION whicli it resembles the jaw of an ape.^^ Yet the teeth aretypically human in arrangement and character, rela-tively small when contrasted with the massive support-. FiGURE 22. Sand-pit at Maure, near Heidelberg, where the Pre-historic Jaw was found. ing bone, but actually large when contrasted with themodern man. The features are so distinctive that thediscoverer, Dr. Schoetensack, considers the specimen asrepresenting a distinct species of man. Lull finds inthis important specimen an admirable illustration of tli§ 27 See figure 23. THE OKIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN 67 law of Haeckel wlioioiu the life cycle of the individualis shown to recapitulate in vastly briefer form the evo-lutionary history of the race. This is borne out by thefact that the teeth of the Heidelberg man are in theirstage of development comparable to those of a youth of
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