Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . s is diiferent. The Gorilla has the crownof the hindmost grinder of the lower jaw more complex,and the order of eruption of the permanent teeth isdifferent; the permanent canines making their appear-ance before the second and third molars in Man, andafter them in the Gorilla. Thus, while the teeth of the Gorilla closely resemblethose of Man in number, kind, and in the general patternof their crowns, they exhibit marked differences fromthose of Man in secondary respects, such as relative size,number of fangs, and order of appearance. But
Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . s is diiferent. The Gorilla has the crownof the hindmost grinder of the lower jaw more complex,and the order of eruption of the permanent teeth isdifferent; the permanent canines making their appear-ance before the second and third molars in Man, andafter them in the Gorilla. Thus, while the teeth of the Gorilla closely resemblethose of Man in number, kind, and in the general patternof their crowns, they exhibit marked differences fromthose of Man in secondary respects, such as relative size,number of fangs, and order of appearance. But, if the teeth of the Gorilla be compared with thoseof an Ape, no further removed from it than a Cynoce-lohalus, or Baboon, it will be found that differences andresemblances of the same order are easily observable; butthat many of the points in which the Gorilla resemblesMan as those in which it differs from the Baboon j MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. 101 while various respects in which it differs from Manare exaggerated in the Cynocephalus. The number \/ ^^ 771-2 m^
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