THE FACE OF FOSSIL MAN 487 
tions shown In figs. 1 80 and 1 8 i relates to the width of the 
jowls, measured between the angles of the lower jaw. In 
both reconstructions the width is represented as 100 mm,, 
quite a common dimension in modern human faces ; but 
in the original model (fig. 180) the side contour of the 
face is that seen in apes, while in the other (fig. 181) the 
human form is reproduced. The ape-like contour is due 
to the fact that in the original model the lower jaw is set 
at a very oblique angle. 
In the nasal bones of Eoanthropus we again come 
across features which are eminently human. In shape 
and size they are short and thick. They resemble the 
nasal bones seen in negroid and in Mongolian races.^ 
If merely the nasal bones had been found at Piltdown, 
anatomists would have agreed that an ancient representative 
of a negroid race had been discovered. If merely the 
canine tooth or mandible had come to light, they would 
have been equally convinced that -they had to deal with 
parts of an anthropoid. If merely the skull bones had 
been recovereci, Eoanthropus would have been regarded 
as purely human and given a position in the immediate 
ancestry of modern man. 
From the nasal bones and from the size and shape 
of the upper canine teeth (see figs. 180, 181), we are 
assured that the nose must have been wide and flat as in 
negroid races. We must infer, too, from the retreating, 
ape-like chin, from the size of the canine and incisor 
teeth, that the mouth and jaws formed a projecting muzzle, 
more so than is the case in any known type of fossil man. 
From the cursory survey just given, the reader may 
have concluded that, so far as the reconstruction of 
the face of Eoanthropus is concerned, there is no sure 
foundation of fact on which the anatomist may build. 
That is not the case. In fig. 182 a problem in face 
reconstruction is presented. The skull is from a native 
Tasmanian with a palate only 10 mm. shorter than that 
of Eoanthropus. In this problem of face reconstruction 
we are given, in the first place, that part of the mandible 
' For details of measurements of nasal bones, see reference on p. 456. 
