Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig . 11. — Eye-tooth of size. It is a noteworthy fact that the Anthropoideye-tooth is rough and cartilaginous at thepoint of contact between the external toothand the gum, while that of the Carnivora atthe same point is smooth and sharp. Theeye-teeth of the Anthropoids is adapted for 30 TEETH OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. use in cracking nuts and the like, while thoseof the Carnivora are exclusively employed inseizing and tearing flesh. This view of thetrue nature of these teeth is confirmed byProfessor Nicholson, a high authority, and notan advocate of
Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig . 11. — Eye-tooth of size. It is a noteworthy fact that the Anthropoideye-tooth is rough and cartilaginous at thepoint of contact between the external toothand the gum, while that of the Carnivora atthe same point is smooth and sharp. Theeye-teeth of the Anthropoids is adapted for 30 TEETH OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. use in cracking nuts and the like, while thoseof the Carnivora are exclusively employed inseizing and tearing flesh. This view of thetrue nature of these teeth is confirmed byProfessor Nicholson, a high authority, and notan advocate of the other theories here Fig. 12.—Canine or Eye-teeth of the size. In his Manual of Zoology, pages 604-5, hesays of the anthropoid apes: The canineteeth of the males are long, strong andpointed, but this is not the case with thefemales. The structure, therefore, of thecanine teeth is to be regarded in the light TEETH OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. 31 of a sexual peculiarity, and not as havingany connection with the nature of the teeth of man are inferior in strength tothose of the anthropoid apes, but the cause ofthis is to be sought not so much in theiroriginal character as in the fact that theyhave been weakened and degenerated by theuse of cooked food for thousands of years. Professor Huxley remarks, with regard tothe eye-teeth of the gorilla: The great devel-opment of the eye-teeth of the adult mightseem to indicate a flesh diet, but the animalpossesses no other characteristic of the car-nivora. Its extremities end in hands, whichare admirably adapted to plucking fruit fromtrees, and in feet
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