Australian forms lead us gradually up to skulls having very much the
type of the Engis cranium. And, on the other hand, it is even more
closely affined to the skulls of certain ancient people who inhabited
Denmark during the 'stone period,' and were probably either
contemporaneous with, or later than, the makers of the 'refuse heaps,'
or 'Kjokkenmoddings' of that country.

The correspondence between the longitudinal contour of the Neanderthal
skull and that of some of those skulls from the tumuli at Borreby, very
accurate drawings of which have been made by Mr. Busk, is very close.
The occiput is quite as retreating, the supraciliary ridges are nearly
as prominent, and the skull is as low. Furthermore, the Borreby skull
resembles the Neanderthal form more closely than any of the Australian
skulls do, by the much more rapid retrocession of the forehead. On the
other hand, the Borreby skulls are all somewhat broader, in proportion
to their length, than the Neanderthal skull, while some attain that
proportion of breadth to length (80:100) which constitutes
brachycephaly.

In conclusion, I may say, that the fossil remains of Man hitherto
discovered do not seem to me to take us appreciably nearer to that
lower pithecoid form, by the modification of which he has, probably,
become what he is. And considering what is now known of the most
ancient races of men; seeing that they fashioned flint axes and flint
knives and bone-skewers, of much the same pattern as those fabricated
by the lowest savages at the present day, and that we have every reason
to believe the habits and modes of living of such people to have
remained the same from the time of the Mammoth and the tichorhine
Rhinoceros till now, I do not know that this result is other than might
be expected.