"Premolar" Quotes from Famous Books
... squirrels in their general form and in their tree-climbing habits. They live now almost exclusively on the island of Madagascar, but palaeontology shows that they were more widely spread at an earlier time. Their teeth are exactly like our own, except that there is one more premolar on each side of each jaw. The "fingers" and "toes" bear nails like ours, again with an exception in the case of the second digits of the hind limbs, which bear claws. The details of structure that set these animals apart from all the rest of the primates are too ... — The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton |