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ANTHROPOID APES. 



which provokes comparison with the lower jiiws of 

 many anthropoids, especially those of the gorilla 

 and chimpanzee (Fig. 37). The resemblance consists 

 chiefly in the uprightness of the anterior surface, 

 and especially of the body of the maxillary bone. 



Fig. 37. — Nauk'tte lower jaw. 



In anthropoids this surface of the bone retreats from 

 the row of teeth backwards and downwards to the 

 lower edge of the body of the maxillary bone (Fig. 

 38) ; and in the Naulette specimen, as well as in 

 the lower jaws of some modern Papuan skulls (of 



I'"ig. 38. 



New Hebrides and elsewhere), there is a certain 

 approximation to the simian type. A fossil ape 

 {Dryopithecus Fontanii) has been found in the Middle 

 Miocene of Saint-G-audens, assumed to be one of the 

 higher anthropoids, and in this case the .jaw is only 



