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PALÆOLITHIC TYPES OF MAN
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bones were strongly prognathic, and the chin was undeveloped. M, Boule describes the man of Chapelle as having a bestial aspect, and places him, in point of cranial development, half-way between Pithecanthropus erectus and the lowest of present-day savages.
Fig. 12.—Side view of the ekull of Homo mousteriensis hauseri (1/3). (After M. Hauser.)

The facts with regard to La Quina skeleton are so recent that it was only on the 27th of June of last year (1912) that Dr. Martin was able to lay the reconstructed skull and mandible before the members of the Société Préhisiorique Française (Fig. 14). From the published details we see that there is a remark-