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Identifier: mansplaceinnatur01huxl (find matches)
Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Europeans
Publisher: New York, J. A. Hill and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 28.—Oblong and prognathous skull of a Negro; side and frontviews. One-third of the natural size. will suffice to prove that they differ, in another respect, to a verystriking extent. The profile of the face of the Calmuck is almostvertical, the facial bones being thrown downwards and tinder thefore part of the skull. The profile of the face of the Negro, onthe other hand, is singularly inclined, the front part of the jaws 112 MANS PLACE IN NATURE. Beaver. Lemur,
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Fig. 29.—Longitudinal and vertical sections of the skulls of a Beaver(Castor Canadensis), a Lemur (L. Catta), and a Baboon (CynocephalusPapio), at, the basicranial axis; 6 c, the occipital plane; iT, the ten-torial plane; a d, the olfactory plane; / e, the basifacial axis; ch a, oc-cipital angle; T ia, tentorial angle; d ai, olfactory angle; ef 1), cranio-facial angle; g h, extreme length of the cavity which lodges the cerebralhemispheres or cerebral length. The length of the basicranial axisas to this length, or, in other words, the proportional length of theline g h to that of a & taken as 100, in the three skulls, is as follows:—Beaver, 70 to 100; Lemur, 119 to 100; Baboon, 144 to 100. In an adultmale Gorilla the cerebral length is as 170 to the basicranial axis takenas 100, in the Negro (Pis:. 30) as 236 to 100. In the Constantinopleskull (Fig. 30) it is as 266 to 100. The difference between the highestApes skull and the lowpst Mans is therefore very strikingly brought out

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  • bookauthor:Huxley__Thomas_Henry__1825_1895
  • booksubject:Human_beings
  • booksubject:Apes
  • booksubject:Ethnology
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  • bookpublisher:New_York__J__A__Hill_and_company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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