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
| James Cocke Southall - 1878 - 464 lehte
...degradation about any part of its structure " — " a fair average skull," says Professor Huxley, " which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." The skulls from the rock-shelter of Bruniquel were pronounced by Professor Owen to exemplify " the distinct... | |
| 1878 - 814 lehte
...with the mammoth and other pleistocene mammalia, Prof. Huxley* says : " It is, in fact, a failaverage human, skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brain of a savage."t The nature of the stone axes and arrow-heads, the flint-flakes, the bone awls,... | |
| 1879 - 690 lehte
...that it was contemporary with some of the extinct mammalia. It is, as Professor Huxley remarks ' ' a fair average human skull, which might have belonged...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." At Neanderthal, between Diisseldorf and Elberfeld, another skull was obtained from a cave, which differs... | |
| Joseph John Murphy - 1879 - 650 lehte
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave-bear,' is yet, according to Prof. Huxley, ' a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.' Of the cave-men of Les Eyzies, who were undoubtedly contemporary with the reindeer in the south of... | |
| Joseph John Murphy - 1879 - 636 lehte
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave-bear,' is yet, according to Prof. Huxley, ' a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.' Of the cave-men of Les Eyzies, who were undoubtedly contemporary with the reindeer in the south of... | |
| 1880 - 930 lehte
..."approaches," in the language of Lyell, "near the highest, or Caucasian type." Huxley calls it a "fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." Dana says " the cranium was high and short, and of good Caucasian type, though of medium capacity."... | |
| William Denton - 1881 - 200 lehte
...ancient as the Neanderthal man, is so superior in its characteristics, that Professor Huxley says it is " a fair, average human skull, which might have belonged...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage," — from which we may learn that the Engis skull does not much depart from the average type of living... | |
| J. O. Kinnaman - 1881 - 386 lehte
...Simian ancestry, while the former presumably of equal antiquity in the much quoted words of Huxley, " might have belonged to a philosopher or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." Along the banks of the Vezere Elver, a small stream in Southern France, for a distance of about ten... | |
| 1881 - 370 lehte
...Simian ancestry, while the former presumably of equal antiquity in the much quoted words of Huxley, " might have belonged to a philosopher or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." Along the banks of the Vezere River, a small stream in Southern France, for a distance of about ten... | |
| Church congress - 1883 - 588 lehte
...probable contemporary of the mammoth and cave-bear had, to use Professor Huxley's words, " a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher....have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." And this development was co-existent, apparently, with savage habits, as suggested by the strong ridges... | |
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