Re: Death of a hypothesis

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Elaine Morgan (elaine@desco.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <31e4a8da.3796006@news.aristotle.net> 74467.2253@compuserve.com wrote...

: > Elaine Morgan <elaine@desco.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: >
: > >> Personally, I think a bit of both. Probably, as the teeth shrank in
: > >> size as did roots, the mandible appeared to protrude more. Other
: > >> animals have chins too.
: > >
: > >Which ones, please? I can't think of any except the elephant
: >
: > Besides the elephant, how about the wooly mammoth and the mastodon?
: >
: Okay, I should have said the elephantidae or whatever the generic term
: is, to be safe. Actually I have never seem a picture of the profile of a
: mastodon,s skull but I would imagine that feature would be there.
: .

The chin in modern man is a brace for the mandibular symphysis that
functionally replaces the superior and inferior tori found in hominoids
and hominids.

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