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Our face from fish to man; a portrait gallery of our ancient ancestors and kinsfolk together with a concise history of our best features

Title: Our face from fish to man; a portrait gallery of our ancient ancestors and kinsfolk together with a concise history of our best features, by William K. Gregory ... with a foreword by William Beebe; with 119 illustrations.
Author: Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970.
Publication: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.

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Description

2 preliminary leaves, iii-xl, 295 pages illustrations, plates

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Contents

Part I: Portrait gallery of our ancient relatives and ancestors -- The value of a face -- The beginnings of our face -- The shark's face and ours -- The mask-face of our gilled ancestors -- Our ancestors come out of the water -- What we owe to the early reptiles -- The one-piece jaw replaces the complex type -- Our mask-face becomes mobile -- Our long-snouted ancestors crowd out the dinosaurs -- Better faces come in with life in the tree-tops -- The almost human face appears -- At last the "perfect" face.
Part II: Concise history of our best features -- The bony framework of the god-like mask -- Fish-traps and faces -- The first mouths -- The beginnings of teeth -- The primary jaws -- The rise of the secondary jaws and their teeth -- Origin of the mammalian palate -- Evolution of the tongue and related structures -- Origin and evolution of the human lips -- later stages in the history of the teeth -- Conclusions -- History of the nose -- Optical photography and its results -- Primitive sound recorders -- Ancient and modern physiognomy -- The face of the future -- Looking backward.

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29006464

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Princeton University Library