Man's Place in Nature, and Other EssaysHuxley, Thomas Henry
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Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Apes; Ethnology; Human beings -- Origin; Indo-Europeans
Width of the frontal from the middle of
the temporal line on one side to the
same point on the opposite 104 (114)=4.1"-4.5".
Length of the frontal from the nasal
process to the coronal suture 133 (125)=5.25"-5".
Extreme width of the frontal sinuses 25 (23)=1.0"-0.9".
Vertical height above a line joining the
deepest notches in the squamous border
of the parietals 70 = 2.75".
Width of hinder part of skull from one
parietal protuberance to the other 138 (150)=5.4"-5.9".
Distance from the upper angle of the
occipital to the superior semicircular
lines 51 (60)=1.9"-2.4".
Thickness of the bone at the parietal
protuberance 8.
---- at the angle of the occipital 9.
---- at the superior semicircular line of
the occipital 10 = 0.3".
Besides the cranium, the following bones have been secured:--
1. Both thigh-bones, perfect. These, like the skull, and all the other
bones, are characterized by their unusual thickness, and the great
development of all the elevations and depressions for the attachment of
muscles. In the Anatomical Museum at Bonn, under the designation of
"Giant's-bones," are some recent thigh-bones, with which in thickness
the foregoing pretty nearly correspond, although they are shorter.
Giant's bones. Fossil bones.
mm. mm.
Length 542 = 21.4" 438 = 17.4"
Diameter of head of femur 54 = 2.14" 53 = 2.0"
" of lower articular end, from
one condyle to the other 89 = 3.5" 87 = 3.4"
Diameter of femur in the middle 33 = 1.2" 30 = 1.1"
2. A perfect right humerus, whose size shows that it belongs to the
thigh-bones.
mm.
Length 312 = 12.3"
Thickness in the middle 26 = 1.0"
Diameter of head 49 = 1.9"
Also a perfect right radius of corresponding dimensions, and the
upper-third of a right ulna corresponding to the humerus and radius.
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