Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . rebral cavity. Tbe tbird, lastly(Fig. 26 B), exbibits tbe edge and tbe interior of tbeposterior, or occipital, part of tbe skull, and sbows veryclearly tbe two depressions for tbe lateral sinusessweeping inwards towards tbe middle line of tbe roof oftbe skull, to form tbe longitudinal sinus. It was clear,therefore, tbat I bad not erred in my interpretation, andtbat tbe posterior lobe of tbe brain of tbe JSTeandertbalman must bave been as mucb flattened as I suspected itto be. In trutb, tbe iSTeandertbal cranium bas most extraor-dinary c
Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . rebral cavity. Tbe tbird, lastly(Fig. 26 B), exbibits tbe edge and tbe interior of tbeposterior, or occipital, part of tbe skull, and sbows veryclearly tbe two depressions for tbe lateral sinusessweeping inwards towards tbe middle line of tbe roof oftbe skull, to form tbe longitudinal sinus. It was clear,therefore, tbat I bad not erred in my interpretation, andtbat tbe posterior lobe of tbe brain of tbe JSTeandertbalman must bave been as mucb flattened as I suspected itto be. In trutb, tbe iSTeandertbal cranium bas most extraor-dinary characters. It has an extreme length of 8 inches. 154 MANS PLACE IN NATURE. while its breadth is only inches, or, in other words,its length is to its breadth as 100:72. It is exceedinglydepressed, measuring only inches from theglabello-occipital line to the vertex. The longitudinalarc, measured in the same way as in the Engis skull, is12 inches; the transverse arc cannot be exactly ascer-tained, in consequence of the absence of the temporal. Fig. 25.—The skull from the Neanderthal cavern. A, side, B,front, and C, top view. One-half the natural size. The out-lines from camera lucida drawings, one-half the natural size, bones, but was probably about the same, and certainlyexceeded 10| inches. The horizontal circumference is23 inches. But this great circumference arises largelyfrom the vast development of the supraciliary ridges,though the perimeter of the brain case itself is notsmall. The large supraciliary ridges give the forehead ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. 155 a far more retreating appearance than its internal con-tour would bear out. To an anatomical eje, the posterior part of the skull
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