Identifier: dentalcosmos3218whit (find matches)
Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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The Orang.(From Woods Natural History.) zees face an immature look. In the young the face is almost human,but the supra-orbital ridges and retreating forehead grow and increasewith age, bringing out the animality. The ears are more like thoseof man, and the lips are neither so extensile nor so large as in thegorilla and orang. The face in the apes is bare, brown-skinned, andmuch wrinkled. THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE FACE. 687 Prof. Mivart (in Man and Apes) is uncompromisingly opposedto the theory of the descent of man from an ape-like ancestor. Hedelights especially in debasing the much-vaunted gorilla as the nearrelative of man, and seeks out resemblances in other primates thatbring them just as near, or nearer, to man. But these also prove theposition of the evolutionist and the defender of the common origin of
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The Chimpanzee.(From Woods Natural History.) man and the quadrumana ; for it is the resemblances in the class ingeneral, and not in any one species, that he would look for. Prof.Mivart says, The gibbons are more human than the orang, thechimpanzee, or gorilla, as to the preponderance of the brain-caseover the bony face. But the smaller American monkeys exceed thegibbons in this respect, while the squirrel monkey exceeds man him- 688 THE DENTAL COSMOS. self. A striking feature of the human skull is the prominence of theinferior margin of the lower jaw in front,—i.e., the presence of the chin. This feature is quite wanting in even the highest Anthropoidae.A more or less developed chin exists, however, in some lower forms,as the Siamang, although no other ape or lemur shows a similar con-dition. Another marked human cranial character is the projectionand transverse convexity of the bones of the nose. This convexity isquite absent in the chimpanzee and in most gibbons. In the orangthese

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