. Readings in evolution, genetics, and eugenics. Evolution; Heredity; Eugenics. vision were well developed there was a limited faculty for profiting by experience and accumulated tradition. The femur associated with the skull is remarkable for its length and slight curvature as compared with the primitive Neanderthal race of Europe and indicates a creature fully as erect and nearly as tall as the average European of today, the height being estimated at s feet 7 inches as compared with 5 feet 3 inches for the Nean- derthals and 5 feet 8 inches, the average height of modem males. The erect postu
. Readings in evolution, genetics, and eugenics. Evolution; Heredity; Eugenics. vision were well developed there was a limited faculty for profiting by experience and accumulated tradition. The femur associated with the skull is remarkable for its length and slight curvature as compared with the primitive Neanderthal race of Europe and indicates a creature fully as erect and nearly as tall as the average European of today, the height being estimated at s feet 7 inches as compared with 5 feet 3 inches for the Nean- derthals and 5 feet 8 inches, the average height of modem males. The erect posture of course implies the Hberation of the hands from any part in the locomotor fxmction. The teeth are somewhat ape-like, but are more human than are those of the gibbon, and the hmnan mode of mastication has been acquired. Certain authorities have tried to prove that Pithecanthropus is nothing but a large gibbon, but the weight of authority considers it prehuman, though not in the line of direct development into humanity. It is neverthe- less a highly important transi- tional form. Associated with the Pithe- canthropus remains are those of a number of the contem- porary animals which fix the Fig. 7.—Jaws, left outer aspect, oi A, date as either of the Upper PUo- chmipanzee,Pare,sp.; B, fossil chimpanzee, cene or lowermost Pleistoceen Pan veins, found in association with Pilt- period, which being rendered down man; C, Heidelberg man, Homo . , ' i • _ „4.' ' , ., „ '. ' , Ti ju in terms of years gives an esti- hetdelbergensis; D, modem man, H. sapiens. i -l (From Lull, after Woodward.) mated age of about 500,000!. 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 Newman, Horatio Hackett, b. 1875. Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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