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
 | 1871
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave bear," is yet, according to Professor 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 south of France,... | |
 | 1871
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave bear," is yet, according to Professor 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 south of France,... | |
 | 1871
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave bear," is yet, according to Professor 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 south of France,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871
...contemporary with the mammoth and the cave bear," is yet, according to Professor 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... | |
 | 1871
...contemporary with the mammoth nnd the cave bear," is yet, according to Professor Huxley, ''a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained llio thoughtless brains of a savage. " Of the cave men of Lcs Eyzies. who were undoubtedly contemporary... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 640 lehte
...There is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average humau skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher,...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage*." Very different is the case with the celebrated skull, found in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 184 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... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873
...skulls. And, assuredly, there ia 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. And of the Neanderthal bones, Huxley says : Although the most pithecoid of human crania yet discovered,... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 259 lehte
...the mammoth and cave bear " — is a fair average skull, which, in the opinion of Professor Huxley, might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. On the other hand, the adult male orang-utan — as bulky as a small-sized man — has only 28 inches... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1874
...skull, and Prof. Huxley says, " there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is a fair average human skull which might have belonged to a philosopher." Again the oldest skull found in America, so far as I know, about which there can be no question that... | |
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