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Wilfrid Montessori Academy The Mental Protuberance Analysis

 

The mandible, the scientific name for the jawbone, of a Modern Human (Homo sapiens sapiens) has a feature visible to the naked eye that differentiates it from all other hominins (and other hominoids as well). It is evident in this picture of a Modern Human (left) and lacking in the Neanderthal (right). What feature of the jawbone (mandible) Modern Humans have that the other hominins lack.