Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 277
cent ofthe upper arm; it approaches the propor-tions seen in the Eskimos, Lapps, andBushmen. ^^ Here, again, the Neanderthalman differs from the anthropoid apes,among which the shortest forearm is thatof the goriUa, having a ratio of 80 percent. There are other features which wouldtend to show that… … Fig. 121. Skeleton of theNeanderthaloid man ofLa Chapelle-aux-Saints.About one - seventeenthlife size. After Boule. THE NEANDERTHAL RACE 239 they are much longer. Thus, we have observed in the anthro-poid apes that the arm is very long in proportion to the leg; inthe chimpanzee, which has…
Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive
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