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An Account of the Anthropoid Apes, chiefly with reference to Specimens recently acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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In taking cranial capacity as a ground of comparison between the Anthropoids and Man, he gave some measurements of skulls contained in the Museum. The capacity of the cranial cavity in the Gorilla skeleton belonging to the Museum is 29 cubic inches. Considerably larger gorilla skulls, however, have been measured. The smallest healthy adult human skulls in the Museum are those of two Andaman Islanders. Of these, one has a cranial capacity of 75·5 cubic inches, and the other a capacity of 72 cubic inches. Next to these comes a Peruvian skull; its cranial cavity measures 76 cubic inches. The smallest healthy adult human skull measured by Morton was also that of a Peruvian, whose cranial capacity measured only 58 cubic inches.

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Proceedings 1868-69
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1869

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