The Dental cosmos . ts of the face. The cranial cavity is not illshaped, and the forehead is not truly flattened or very retreating,its really well-formed curve being simply disguised by the mass ofbone which is built up against it. . It is the large propor-tional size of the facial bones and the great projection of the jawswhich gives the gorillas skull its small facial angle and the face itsbrutal character. . The lower apes and monkeys exaggeratethe general proportions of the muzzle of the great anthropoid, sothat his visage looks mild and human by comparison with difference betw
The Dental cosmos . ts of the face. The cranial cavity is not illshaped, and the forehead is not truly flattened or very retreating,its really well-formed curve being simply disguised by the mass ofbone which is built up against it. . It is the large propor-tional size of the facial bones and the great projection of the jawswhich gives the gorillas skull its small facial angle and the face itsbrutal character. . The lower apes and monkeys exaggeratethe general proportions of the muzzle of the great anthropoid, sothat his visage looks mild and human by comparison with difference between the gorilla and the baboon is even greater THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE FACE. 689 than it appears at first sight, for the great facial mass of the former islargely due to a downward development of the jaws ; a certainhuman character, superadded upon that almost purely forward,essentially brutal, development of the same parts which characterizesthe baboon and yet more distinguishes the lemur. . The. The Gorilla.(From Woods Natural History.) prangs skull is as devoid of excessively developed superciliary prom-inences as mans, though sometimes exhibiting crests in other some of the cebine apes or others the cranium is as smooth androunded as that oLman himself. The truth is that the divergencies are so many and the resemblancesvol. xxxn.—50 6go THE DENTAL COSMOS. so few that none of the Anthropomorpha are really very near to , the class, taken together, presents many indications of relation-ship. In the facial form and features there are many such resem-blances, evidencing the collateral development as well as the relation-ship of the face in man and the quadrumana. The human face, like the remainder of the mere tenement of thesoul, came up through many vicissitudes to its present beauty andperfection. As Huxley again says {pp. cit.), Our evidences of thenobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that manis, in substance and structure, on
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