The Projection of the Nasal Bones in Man and the Ape

Abstract

THE form and projection of the osseous frame-work of the human nose being cansiderad by anthropologists of considerable value in a racial point of view, a close comparison has recently been made of the profiles of the external nose of man and the nose-case of the anthropoid apes. It has resulted in the conviclion (1) that the absence of projection in the nasal bones of the chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orang constitutes a distinction of more importance than has generally been assigned to it, and not the less so seem; the fact (2) that a slight nasal elevation is observable in the skulls of some of the gibbons, and in the lower monkeys, as, for instance the baboons.