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102 : 1. W. D. Matthew, _Revision of the Lower Eocene Primates_, and W.
K. Gregory, _The Evolution of the Primates_.
102 : 13. Schoetensack, _Der Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelbergensis aus
den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg im Beitrag zur Paläontologie des
Menschen_.
102 : 21. At the beginning of this Eolithic period wood was used for
clubs and probably as levers along with the chance flints. Perhaps it
was employed even earlier, but of course no remains would come down to
us.
CHAPTER II. PALEOLITHIC MAN
For the material in this chapter the authorities, such as Cartailhac,
Boule, Breuil, Obermaier and Rutot are all given in Osborn, 1, together
with useful discussions of the evidence. In special instances additional
sources are inserted here.
105 : 17. Piltdown Man. See Charles Dawson, the discoverer, 1, 2 and 3.
There is a tremendous bibliography on the Piltdown Man.
106 : 1. _The Jaw of the Piltdown Man_, Gerrit S. Miller. From a later
paper by Mr. Miller (2) we quote the following from pp. 43–44:
“The combined characters of the jaw, molars and skull were made the
basis of a genus Eoanthropus, placed in the family Hominidæ.... While
the brain case is human in structure, the jaw and teeth have not yet
been shown to present any character diagnostic of man; the recognized
features in which they resemble human jaws and teeth are merely those
which men and apes possess in common. On the other hand, the symphyseal
region of the jaw, the canine tooth and the molars are unlike those
known to occur in any race of men.... Until the combination of a human
brain case and nasal bones with an ape-like mandible, ape-like lower
molars and an ape-like upper canine has actually been seen in one
animal, the ordinary procedure of both zoology and paleontology would
refer each set of fragments to a member of the family which the
characters indicate. The name Eoanthropus dawsoni has therefore been
restricted to the human elements of the original composite (Family
Hominidæ), and the name Pan vetus has been proposed for the animal
represented by the jaw (Family Pongidæ).”
See also _The Dawn Man of Piltdown, England_, by W. K. Gregory. Ray
Lancaster has made some interesting observations and is the most recent
authority on this subject.
106 : 14. On the Neanderthal Man see Osborn and his authorities.
107 : 21. A note on p. 385 of Rice Holmes’s _Ancient Britain_ is useful
in this connection. “MM. de Quatrefages and Hamy affirm that the
Neanderthal race has left a permanent imprint on the population, and
refer to various skulls of the Neolithic and later periods which
resemble more or less closely that of Neanderthal. Moreover, it is
generally admitted that even at the present day a few individuals here
and there belong to the same type. But it does not follow that these
persons to whom Dr. Beddoe and M. Hamy refer were descended from men who
lived in Britain in the Paleolithic age.”
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