20 Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man 
be no reason why he should not have been capable of at least 
simple articulation. 
The two molar teeth preserved in the lower jaw are essentially 
human, and have been worn flat in human fashion by the masti- 
Fig. 8. — Continuation and explanation opposite. 
cation of coarse or gritty food (Plate IV and fig. 9b, p. 22). They 
are merely rather large and unusually long and narrow ; and the 
socket for the third or hindmost molar shows that it must have 
been scarcely inferior in size. They are thus the kind of teeth 
