Note 14 — THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE (continued 7)
Reading edition
The facial angle is formed by the meeting of two lines drawn on the profile of the skull—one of them a line touching the projecting part of the forehead and the gum of the upper jaw, the other connecting the base of the nose and the opening of the ear. The angle formed by the meeting of these lines sometimes amounts in a Caucasian variety of man to 80 degrees and upward; in the other varieties it seldom exceeds 70 degrees; and in the instance of some degraded races is considerably less.