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Chapter 10 THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN

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w years ago its remains were considered to be altogether human. We have skulls and bones of it and a great accumulation of the large implements it

bably slouched along, head down and forward. Their chinless jaw-bones resemble the Heidelberg jaw-bone and are markedly unlike human jaw-bones. And there were great differences from the human pattern in their teeth. Their cheek teeth were more complicated in structure than ours, more complicated and not less so; they had not the long fangs of our cheek teeth; and also the

s, and from that place these strange proto-men have been christened Neanderthal Men, or Nea

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t valleys, with perhaps a chain of lakes in their deeper portions, and a great inland sea spread from the present Black Sea across South Russia and far into Central Asia. Spain and all of Europe not actually under ice consisted of bleak uplands under a harder climate than that of Labrador, and it was only when North Af

marrow bones of great animals in his caves, cracked to extract the marrow. His weapons could not have been of much avail in open conflict with great beasts, but it is supposed that he attacked them with spears at difficult river crossings and even constructed pitfalls for them. Possibly he followed t

n doubtful if he went erect. He may have used his knuckles as well as his feet to hold himself up. Probably he went about alo

rld from the south. They ousted the Neanderthalers from their caves and squatting places; they hunted the same food; they probably made war upon their grisly predecessors and killed them off. These newcomers from the south or the east-for at present we do not know their region of origin-who at last drove the Neanderthaler

the Record of the Rocks, an

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receding in Europe; the reindeer of France and Spain presently gave way to great herds of horses as grass increased upo

ics between the Neanderthaler and the human being. The brain-case indicates a brain bigger in front and smaller behind than the Neanderthaler's, and the skull was poised erect upon the backbone in a quite human way. The teeth also and the bones are quite human. But the

ween the beginnings of the Ice Age and the appearance of their common heir, and perhaps their common exterminator, the True Man. The Rhodesian skull itself may not be very ancient. Up

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE WORLD IN SPACE Chapter 2 THE WORLD IN TIME Chapter 3 THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE Chapter 4 THE AGE OF FISHES Chapter 5 THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS Chapter 6 THE AGE OF REPTILES Chapter 7 THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS Chapter 8 THE AGE OF MAMMALS Chapter 9 MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN Chapter 10 THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN Chapter 11 THE FIRST TRUE MEN
Chapter 12 PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
Chapter 13 THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
Chapter 14 PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
Chapter 15 SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
Chapter 16 PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
Chapter 17 THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES
Chapter 18 EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
Chapter 19 THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
Chapter 20 THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
Chapter 21 THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JEWS
Chapter 22 PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDEA
Chapter 23 THE GREEKS
Chapter 24 THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND PERSIANS
Chapter 25 THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE
Chapter 26 THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Chapter 27 THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA
Chapter 28 THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Chapter 29 KING ASOKA
Chapter 30 CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE
Chapter 31 ROME COMES INTO HISTORY
Chapter 32 ROME AND CARTHAGE
Chapter 33 THE GROWTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 34 BETWEEN ROME AND CHINA
Chapter 35 THE COMMON MAN'S LIFE UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 36 RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 37 THE TEACHING OF JESUS
Chapter 38 THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY
Chapter 39 THE BARBARIANS BREAK THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST
Chapter 40 THE HUNS AND THE END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
Chapter 41 THE BYZANTINE AND SASSANID EMPIRES
Chapter 42 THE DYNASTIES OF SUY AND TANG IN CHINA
Chapter 43 MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
Chapter 44 THE GREAT DAYS OF THE ARABS
Chapter 45 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM
Chapter 46 THE CRUSADES AND THE AGE OF PAPAL DOMINION
Chapter 47 RECALCITRANT PRINCES AND THE GREAT SCHISM
Chapter 48 THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
Chapter 49 THE INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS
Chapter 50 THE REFORMATION OF THE LATIN CHURCH
Chapter 51 THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
Chapter 52 THE AGE OF POLITICAL EXPERIMENTS; OF GRAND MONARCHY AND PARLIAMENTS AND REPUBLICANISM IN EUROPE
Chapter 53 THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE EUROPEANS IN ASIA AND OVERSEAS
Chapter 54 THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 55 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANCE
Chapter 56 THE UNEASY PEACE IN EUROPE THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF NAPOLEON
Chapter 57 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 58 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Chapter 59 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS
Chapter 60 THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES
Chapter 61 THE RISE OF GERMANY TO PREDOMINANCE IN EUROPE
Chapter 62 THE NEW OVERSEAS EMPIRES OF STEAMSHIP AND RAILWAY
Chapter 63 EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA AND THE RISE OF JAPAN
Chapter 64 THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914
Chapter 65 THE AGE OF ARMAMENT IN EUROPE, AND THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-18
Chapter 66 THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA
Chapter 67 THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD
Chapter 68 No.68
Chapter 69 No.69
Chapter 70 No.70
Chapter 71 No.71
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