The Cro-Magnon head-form is refined and highly developed.
The forehead is high, and the chin shapely, whilst neither the brow-ridge nor the lower jaw protrudes as in the Neanderthal type.
Whether this race survives in modern Europe is, as was said in the last chapter, highly uncertain.

In certain respects--for instance, in a certain shortness of face--these people present exceptional features; though some think they can still find men of this type in the Dordogne district.

Perhaps the chances are, however, considering how skulls of the neolithic period prove to be anything but uniform, and suggest crossings between different stocks, that we may claim kinship to some extent with the more good-looking of the two main types of palaeolithic man--always supposing that head-form can be taken as a guide.

But can it?
The Pygmies of the Congo region have medium heads; the Bushmen of South Africa, usually regarded as akin in race, have long heads.

The American Indians, generally supposed to be all, or nearly all, of one racial type, show considerable differences of head-form; and so on.