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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.
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HARRISON, J. The Projection of the Nasal Bones in Man and the Ape. Nature 27, 266–267 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027266g0
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