We know very little of the appearance of the Neaderthal man, but this . . . seems to suggest an extreme hairiness, an ugliness, or a repulsive strangeness in his appearance over and above his low forehead, his beetle brows, his ape neck, and his inferior stature . . . Says Sir Harry Johnston, in a survey of the rise of modern man in his Views and Reviews: 'The dim racial remembrance of such gorilla-like monsters, with cunning brains, shambling gait, hairy bodies, stong teeth, and possibly canabalistic tendencies, may be the germ of the ogre in folklore . .'

H. G. Wells, Outlines of History