XXVII. MUNSEE CRANIA: SUBORBITAL (CANINE) FOSSÆ

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| 7 males | 12 females

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|Cases|Per cent|Cases|Per cent

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Deeply hollowed | — | — | — | —

Medium | 3 | 43 | 6 | 50

Shallow | 3 | 43 | 6 | 50

Only a trace of depression| 1 | 14 | — | —

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These fossæ are of evolutionary significance. In the anthropoid apes

they are either entirely wanting or very nearly so, the region being

in fact often moderately convex; and the same is true, so far as

the evidence is available, of early man to the latter part of the

Neanderthal period.

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