Re: Death of a hypothesis

Karen (karen@uab.edu)
Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:21:12 -0700

HARRY R. ERWIN wrote:

> 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.

What mandibular symphysis? Has h.s.s. not lost this morphological
feature? Maybe I misunderstand your post but I thought that the
mandibular symphysis was lost long ago.

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Karen

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