Carpenter's principles of human physiology . Broca, On Anthro-pology; Rolleston and Greenwell, op. cit. ; Flower, Lectures in British Med. Journal,vol. i. 1879. 988 OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. sufficient to approximate the Ethiopian races to the higher Apes, as somehave supposed it to be. Independently of the diminution of the facialangle resulting from the projection of the upper jaw, it is quite certain thatin the typical prognathous skull there is a want of elevation of the forehead;but it does not appear that there is a corresponding diminution in the capacityof the cranial cavity
Carpenter's principles of human physiology . Broca, On Anthro-pology; Rolleston and Greenwell, op. cit. ; Flower, Lectures in British Med. Journal,vol. i. 1879. 988 OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. sufficient to approximate the Ethiopian races to the higher Apes, as somehave supposed it to be. Independently of the diminution of the facialangle resulting from the projection of the upper jaw, it is quite certain thatin the typical prognathous skull there is a want of elevation of the forehead;but it does not appear that there is a corresponding diminution in the capacityof the cranial cavity, the retreating form of the forehead being partly due tothe general elongation of the skull in the antero-posterior direction. Nor isit true, as stated by some, that the position of the foramen magnum in theNegro is decidedly behind that which it holds in the European, in this respectapproaching that of the Apes ; since, if due allowance be made for theprojection of the upper jaw, this aperture is found to have the same position Fig.
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