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IN 1914 I had the privilege, thanks to the kindness of the late Prof. Fawcett, of studying the development of the human facial bones in his unique series of embryonic crania. In 1918, as a result of this investigation, I stated in my first publication on the “Ancestry of Man” that absence of the premaxilla on the human face was “a human specific character”, and that from its very precocious ontogenetic development it might be presumed to be a very early phylogenetic acquirement. This statement received a certain amount of adverse criticism, but I repeated it and amplified it again in “Man's Place among the Mammals” in 1929.
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JONES, F. The Premaxilla and the Ancestry of Man. Nature 159, 439 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159439a0
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