The book The Evolution of Man; a Popular Scientific Study was written by author Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919 Here you can read free online of The Evolution of Man; a Popular Scientific Study book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Evolution of Man; a Popular Scientific Study a good or bad book?
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(Cf. Plate XVII.) Fig. 400.— Human Skull. Fig. 401.— Skull of the fossil ape-man of Java (pithecanthropus erectusj, restored by Eugen Dubois. (Cf. Plate XVII.) Fig. 402.— Skull of new-born child. (From Kollmann.) Above, in the three bones of the roof of the skull, we see the lines that radiate from the central points of ossification ; in front, the frontal bone ; behind, the occipital bone ; between the two the larg-e parietal bone, p. s the scurf bone, w mastoid fontanelle, /petrous bone, /tym...panic bone, /lateral part, b bulla,/ cheek-bone, a large wing: of cuneiform bone, k fontanelle of cuneiform bone. EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANS OF MOVEMENT 725 Ilenstein "a fine bleached skull of a hind, the thought flashed across him like lightning : ' It is a vertebral column.'" This famous vertebral theory of the skull has interested the most distinguished zoologists for more than a century ; the chief representatives of comparative anatomy have devoted their highest powers to the solution of the problem, and the interest has spread far beyond their circle.
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