Into this break in the
series, in each jaw, fits the canine of the opposite jaw; the size of
the eye-tooth in the Gorilla being so great that it projects, like a
tusk, far beyond the general level of the other teeth. The roots of
the false molar teeth of the Gorilla, again, are more complex than in
Man, and the proportional size of the molars is different. The Gorilla
has the crown of the hindmost grinder of the lower jaw more complex,
and the order of eruption of the permanent teeth is different; the
permanent canines making their appearance before the second and third
molars in Man, and after them in the Gorilla.
Thus, while the teeth of the Gorilla closely resemble those of Man in
number, kind, and in the general pattern of their crowns, they exhibit
marked differences from those of Man in secondary respects, such as
relative size, number of fangs, and order of appearance.
But, if the teeth of the Gorilla be compared with those of an Ape, no
further removed from it than a 'Cynocephalus', or Baboon, it will be
found that differences and resemblances of the same order are easily
observable; but that many of the points in which the Gorilla resembles
Man are those in which it differs from the Baboon; while various
respects in which it differs from Man are exaggerated in the
'Cynocephalus'.
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