When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Profe…

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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. ✨ Charles Lyell (2005). The Geological Evidence of Man, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld. ✨ Charles Lyell (2005). The Geological Evidence of Man, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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