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Last Link, 037.png The upper figure represents the outlines of the skull of Pithecanthropus, as restored by Manouvier.[1] The lower figure shows the comparative size and shape of Pithecanthropus, the Neanderthal skull, a specimen of the Cro-Magnon race of neolithic France, and a Young Chimpanzee before the full development of the supraorbital crests.


  1. L. Manouvier: 'Deuxième étude sur le Pithecanthropus erectus comme précurseur présumé de l'homme.' (Bulletins de la Soc. d' Anthropologie de Paris, 1895.)