OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



is usurped by the sense of sight. Concomitantly, 

 the brain of the chimpanzee has increased greatly 

 so that the braincase is distinctly subhuman in 

 appearance. The erect position assumed by apes 

 that climb so much by means of their arms as 

 do the anthropoids has conditioned the bending 

 downward of the face upon the braincase (Fig. 

 36). 



Everyone recognizes in the chimpanzee (Fig. 40) 

 a gross caricature of the human face, in which 

 the mouth and lips are absurdly large and the nose 

 flat with little or no bridge. But from the anthro- 

 poid viewpoint the human face may well appear 

 equally grotesque, with its weak little mouth, 

 exposed lips and unpleasantly protruding nose. 

 Possibly the common ancestor of man and apes 

 would be shocked by each of his descendants. But 

 allowing for much divergent evolution in the end 

 forms, what makes men and anthropoids so much 

 more like each other in fundamental features of 

 the face than either is to the oldest forerunners of 

 the entire order, long antedating their nearer 

 common ancestor? First, let us set down in 

 parallel columns a few of these resemblances' 



and differences. 



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