OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



tation and to a horizontal position of the vertebral 

 column; the anthropoids, on the other hand, are 

 chiefly frugivorous and their vertebral column is 

 more or less erect. 



Fig. 42. Fossil Anthropoid and Human Skulls. 



A. Australopithecus, a young extinct anthropoid (after Dart); 



B. Eoanthropus (after A. S. Woodward and J. H. McGregor); 



C. Pithecanthropus erectus (after Dubois); D. Neanderthal (after 

 Boule); E. Talgai (after S. A. Smith); F. Rhodesian (after A. S. 

 Woodward); G. Cro-Magnon (after Verneau). 



In the female and young skulls the brow ridges are less projecting or 

 entirely lacking. For details, see pp. xxi, xxii. 



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