MIDFACE RECONFIGURATION. “The reduced modern anthropoid midface may be hypothesized to relate, both in an evolutionary and developmental manner, to an altered configuration among the functional matrices that influence midfacial position, including the eye, brain, dentition, and mucosa-lined nasal air spaces. Unknown is the extent to which the anthropoid midface is reoriented, reduced, or both.”
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