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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 273

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race is naturally fleet of foot. Similarly the Neanderthal man has avery short forearm, only 73.8 per 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… … Fig. 121. Skeleton of theXeanderthaloid man ofLa Chapelle-aux-Saints.About one - seventeenthlife size. After Boule. Neanderthaloids haddwellers back into a arms are much shorter than the legs, whereas in tree dwellers THE NEANDERTHAL RACE 239 they are much longer. Thus, we have observed in the…

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