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THE more the remains of Neanderthal man are studied, the more it becomes apparent that Prof. Schwalbe is right in regarding this Pleistocene race as being totally distinct from all existing races of mankind. It is true that Neanderthal man in some characters, for instance, the teeth, shows a certain degree of specialisation, but in the vast majority he is infinitely more simian than any race now living. He serves in some degree to carry human history towards an ape stage. Those who believe that modern man has been evolved in a comparatively brief and recent geological period are inclined to accept the Neanderthal type as representative of mankind of a late stage of the Pleistocene epoch, and to suppose that modern man has been evolved from the more primitive type since that date.
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The Relationship of Neanderthal Man and Pithecanthropus to Modern Man 1 . Nature 89, 155–156 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089155a0
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