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I. As to General Form. — (3) The arms are longer. 



//. Surface. — {10) The hair of the head is short, and the hair 

 on the body is more distributed. 



///. As to Head and Face. — (21) The nose is without bridge, 

 and the cartilages are short and flat. 



Three characters only out of twenty-three. On the other hand, 

 the following characters of monkey-like significance are the oppo- 

 sites of those included in the embryonic list : (14) The facial re- 

 gion of the skull is large as compared with the cerebral ; (15) the 

 forehead is not prominent ; (16) the superciliary ridges are more 





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Fig. 54. — Portrait of a girl at five years of age. Fig. 55. — Portrait of the same at 

 seventeen years, showing the elongation of the facial region, and less protuberance of 

 the cerebral. 



prominent ; (17) the edges of the jaws are more prominent. Four 

 characters, all of the face and head. It is thus evident that in at- 

 taining maturity man resembles more and more the apes in some 

 important parts of his facial expression. 



It must be noted here that the difference between the young 

 and embryonic monkeys and the adults is quite the same as those 

 just mentioned as distinguishing the young from the adult of man 

 (Figs. 1-2). The change, however, in the case of the monkeys is 

 greater than in the case of man. That is, in the monkeys the 

 jaws and superciliary ridges become still more prominent than in 



