And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 286by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1870 - 624 lehte
...foundation than that of Aurignac. The famous skull from Engis, discovered by Dr. Schmerling, ' and which might have belonged to a philosopher, ' or might...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage,' * is perhaps the strongest case in favour of the skull being of the same antiquity as the extinct Mammalia.... | |
| 1876 - 782 lehte
...Huxley remarks, " There is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." The skulls taken out at Bruniquel were well developed, and equal to those of Celtic stock now. Similar... | |
| Royal Geological Society of Cornwall - 1841 - 492 lehte
...readily referred by anatomists to the ordinary European race, as Professor Huxley describes it — " a fair average human skull which might have belonged...philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brain of a savage." The skull from Neanderthal, on the olher hand, presents such a peculiarity of form... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 580 lehte
...with the mammoth and the cave bear, has been pronounced by Professor Huxley to be " a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." But the brains of any ape would have lain in a corner of it, and left a large vacancy. If the ape passed... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 204 lehte
...typical Australians. there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The case of the Neanderthal skull is very different. Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether... | |
| 1863 - 662 lehte
...SchaafT hnusen in ' Natural History Review,' i. 156. f Professor Huxley elsewhere describes it as ' a fair average ' human skull, which might have belonged...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.' (Man's Place in Nature, p. 156.) Professor Huxley says: — 'The fact that the skulls of one of the... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 lehte
...skulls, and assuredly there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the brains of a thoughtless savage. Another human skull was discovered, in 1857, in the Neanderthal valley,... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 lehte
...equally well with some European crania ; that there is no mark of degradation about it ; that it is a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The skull with which I am going to compare it was sent to the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh... | |
| 1864 - 746 lehte
...modern Europeans. " There is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage."* The Neanderthal skull has been already described in these pages,t and there can be no doubt that it is... | |
| 1864 - 584 lehte
...skulls. And, assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about, any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." (Huxley, p. 156.) With respect to the " Neanderthal skull," it has been observed by Dr. Hermann von... | |
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