...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

..."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."...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...