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
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1895 - 328 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...contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The case of the Neanderthal skull is very different. Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether... | |
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...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... | |
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