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Identifier: Anthropology_829 (find matches)
Title: Anthropology
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Topinard, Paul
Subjects: Human beings Anthropology
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co.

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we should scarcely have expected.Erom the combination of these two elements, as regards the relationof the horizontal to the vertical projection, the result is that thefrontal tubers are in a measure more conformable to the cerebral €hap. hi.) PROGNATHISM. 277 organ -which they protect in the European than in the negro, andespecially the Asiatic. The Asiatic, it is true, gains in breadthwhat he loses in projection and in height, and is in consequenceabove the negro. Craniometry thus confirms the prevailingopinion that a well-developed forehead specially belongs to thewhite races and is a mark of beauty. Moreover, the angular measurement exhibits this conformationstill more strongly, showing the deficient forehead of the Mongolsand Chinese. The contrast would be still more striking if theAuvergnians, our term of comparison, did not possess an enormousglabella, owing to which the inferior extremity of the frontal lineis brought forward, and the angular aperture is diminished to their
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pIG# 35^ Example of tlie receding forehead, with the bosses low and almost obliterated, prejudice; while in the yellow races, the glabella being almostobliterated, it is increased to their advantage. The measurement of prognathism is another purpose to which,the craniophore is applied. Prognathism. Prognathism has always since the time of Prichard been under-stood to mean the elongation and prominence, or obliquity,of the jaws, common in the black races of Africa and Oceania,accidental in some Europeans. It is in profile that we at oncerecognise it, whether in the living subject or on the skull. Animaginary perpendicular is let fall from the root or anterior spine 278 MEASUKEMENT OF PROGNATHISM. (Chap. hi. of tlie nose, and according as the portion in front is more or lessconsiderable, so we say the subject is, or is not, prognathous.Nothing is more simple, and yet we meet with the term amongauthors in various acceptations. Some speak of the prognathismof the face, others of that of t

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