"Prognathism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common to criminals and apes; the excessive size of the orbits, which, combined with the hooked nose, so often imparts to criminals the aspect of birds of prey, the projection of the lower part of the face and jaws (prognathism) found in negroes and animals, and supernumerary teeth (amounting in some cases to a double row as in snakes) and cranial bones (epactal bone as in the Peruvian Indians): all these characteristics pointed to one conclusion, the atavistic ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero |
