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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
contemporary with the Piltdown race, the humanisation 
of the canine teeth is complete. That fact has an 
important bearing on the place we are to assign to the 
Piltdown race in our ancestral tree (fig. 187). 
In supplying the missing parts of the Piltdown mandible, 
(B) CHIMPANZEE. 
Fig. 173. — A. Profile of the mandible and lower teeth of Eoanthropus, as 
reconstructed by the writer. B. Similar view of the mandible and lower 
teeth of a female chimpanzee. 
and the missing teeth, we must be guided, to a con- 
siderable extent, by the corresponding parts of anthropoid 
apes. In fig. 173 is reproduced a reconstruction of the 
Piltdown mandible which differs only in detail from the 
later reconstruction by Dr Smith Woodward. A drawing 
of the mandible and teeth of a female chimpanzee is also 
shown in fig. 173. The reconstruction of the missing 
