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served in the skull of the Anteater Professor Anthony noted 

 in less degree certainly but just as distinctly in the edentulous 

 dog. There were a weak mandible, the rounding of the occiput, 

 the concavity of the palate, the weakness and falling in of the 



Fig. 58. — The human mandible at different ages (one-half natural size). 

 A illustrates the appearance shortly before birth. 



B represents the mandible of a child of four years in whom all the temporary 

 teeth have appeared. 



C shows the mandible of an adult with complete permanent dentition. 

 D represents the senile mandible after the loss of all teeth. 



zygoma, the small areas of muscular attachment and the 

 smooth and rounded skull. 



The features of the old partially or Avholly edentulous human 

 being now become explicable. The rounded weak jaw, the ap- 



