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2XQ prognatlious^ or "forward-jawed," while the European is orthogna- 

 thous, or " upright-jawed." At the same time the Australian and 

 African have more retreating foreheads than the European, to the dis- 

 advantage of the frontal lobes of their brain as compared with ours. 



Fig. 5. Female Po"traits. a. Negro (W. Africa) ; b. Barolong (S. Africa) ; c. Hottentot ; (?, Gil- 

 yak vN. Asia) ; e, Japanese ; /, Colorado Indian (N. America) ; g, English. 



Thus the upper and lower parts of the profile combine to give the 

 faces of these less civilized peoples a somewhat ape-like slope, as dis- 

 tinguished from the more nearly upright European face. 



