What's more, the outer margin — the side of the orbit furthest from the nose — is recessed much further back in the human skull than in
other ape skulls.
Not exact matches
Comparisons with
other African
ape fossils indicate that the infant's
skull belongs to a new species that the researchers named Nyanzapithecus alesi.
When there are no
other infant Miocene
ape skulls to which to make those comparisons, your hands are tied.»
This means that when we swivel our eyeballs sideways, we have a lateral view of the world that is unimpeded by the bones of the
skull, unlike
other apes.