Quarterly Journal of Science: 1864, 1. köideJohn Churchill and Sons, 1864 |
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... lambdoidal suture — or joining of the parietals * See Busk's translation of Schaaffhausen's paper in the Natural History Review , ' 1861 , pp . 158-162 . ་ The line A A , in Fig . 1 , Plate I. , passes from the glabella to the occipital ...
... lambdoidal suture — or joining of the parietals * See Busk's translation of Schaaffhausen's paper in the Natural History Review , ' 1861 , pp . 158-162 . ་ The line A A , in Fig . 1 , Plate I. , passes from the glabella to the occipital ...
Page 90
... lambdoidal suture . The pos- terior fall of the Neanderthal skull , as a peculiarity , was first pointed out by Huxley , who remarks that " the occipital region slopes obliquely upward and forward , so that the lambdoidal suture is ...
... lambdoidal suture . The pos- terior fall of the Neanderthal skull , as a peculiarity , was first pointed out by Huxley , who remarks that " the occipital region slopes obliquely upward and forward , so that the lambdoidal suture is ...
Page 91
... lambdoidal suture , below which the occipital bone stands more or less vertical to the glabello - occipital plane . The Neanderthal cranium , in its posterior features , is approached by some savage races ; also occasionally by a few ...
... lambdoidal suture , below which the occipital bone stands more or less vertical to the glabello - occipital plane . The Neanderthal cranium , in its posterior features , is approached by some savage races ; also occasionally by a few ...
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... ( lambdoidal ) border running with an even crescentic curve from one transverse ridge to the other : * generally in ... suture being obliterated in that part , but I venture to state that it is approximately true . On the cast , an incised line ...
... ( lambdoidal ) border running with an even crescentic curve from one transverse ridge to the other : * generally in ... suture being obliterated in that part , but I venture to state that it is approximately true . On the cast , an incised line ...
Page 95
... ( lambdoidal ) border running with an even crescentic curve from one transverse ridge to the other : * generally in ... suture being obliterated in that part , but I venture to state that it is approximately true . § On the cast , an incised ...
... ( lambdoidal ) border running with an even crescentic curve from one transverse ridge to the other : * generally in ... suture being obliterated in that part , but I venture to state that it is approximately true . § On the cast , an incised ...
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