ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Torus Mandibularis, Sagittal Crest, Paranthropus

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Maxilla has a humanlike parabolic dental arcade. Tale of three areas: africa, china, and indonesia. Increase in the brain size of homo erectus over that of its predecessors. Thick cranial skull and four features described and named in. Weidenreich (1873-1948: the torus supraorbitalis (or supraorbital torus) Is the brow ridge, a large bulge over the eyes: the torus angularis (or angular torus) Thickening or bulging of the top line (or superior edge) of the temporal bone as it approaches the occipital bone in the neck: the torus occipitalis (or occipital torus) Is a continuation of that ridge along the back of the skull on the occipital bone: the crista sagittalis (or sagittal crest) Refers here to a sagittal keeling of the parietal bones, which is quite distinct from the sagittal ridge of the robust australopithecines. There is also a thickening of the frontal and the parietals that extends to the torus occipitalis.

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