Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ot marked with across. After Schoetensack, Der Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelbergensis, Taf. II, Leip-zig, 1908. Perhaps the first thing to attract ones attention is the absence ofa chin (pi. 13). The region of the symphysis is somewhat goril-loid, while the aiscending ramus suggests rather the gibbon. Theteeth, however, have a distinctly human stamp, not only in their gen-eral appearance, but also in point of size—larger than the average,but smaller than in exceptional cases to be found among the Aus-tralians, for instance. O
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ot marked with across. After Schoetensack, Der Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelbergensis, Taf. II, Leip-zig, 1908. Perhaps the first thing to attract ones attention is the absence ofa chin (pi. 13). The region of the symphysis is somewhat goril-loid, while the aiscending ramus suggests rather the gibbon. Theteeth, however, have a distinctly human stamp, not only in their gen-eral appearance, but also in point of size—larger than the average,but smaller than in exceptional cases to be found among the Aus-tralians, for instance. One is impressed, in fact, by the relativesmallness of the teeth as compared with the massive jaw in the caseof Homo heidelbergensis. The alveolar arch is almost long enough,for example, to allow space for a fourth molar. I noted the samephenomenon in a collection of recent crania from Gazelle Peninsula,New Britain. In one of these the alveolar arch of the upper jaw o American Autbropologist, 1902, n. s., vol. 4, 474. Smithsonian Report, 1909.—MacCurdy. Plate Fig. a. Lower Jaw of Hoivio heidelbergensis. About i.
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