| 1870 - 624 pagine
...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 pagine
...quadrupeds in a cave at Engis. It, however, showed no signs of inferiority. Professor Huxley remarks, " There is no mark of degradation about any part of...have 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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...flattening, and the supraciliary ridge of the Engis skull is quite unlike that of the typical Australians. there is no mark of degradation about any part of...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage. The case of the Neanderthal skull is very different. Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 pagine
...the other hand, its measuremeuU agree equally well with those of some European skulls, and assuredly there is no mark of degradation about any part of...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,... | |
| 1863 - 662 pagine
...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... | |
| 1864 - 594 pagine
...other hand, its measurements agree equally well with those of some European skulls. And, assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of...have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." (Huxlej, p. 156.) With respect to the " Neanderthal skull," it has been observed by Dr. Hermann von... | |
| 1864 - 584 pagine
...other hand, its measurements agree equally well with those of some European skulls. And, assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about, any part of...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... | |
| 1864 - 746 pagine
...^Ethiopian characters, but in reality it very much resembles in form those of many modern Europeans. " There is no mark of degradation about any part of...have 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... | |
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