The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of
brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.
Yet Simians, the first of the series, opens with the featureless facial structure of a generic ape: a prominent
brow ridge above round eye sockets and a protrusive maxilla.
with a piping of cotton balls along the
brow ridge.
As you will see from the attached photo, he bears strong facial and cranial similarities to the original Neanderthal man - with prominent
brow ridge and low, sloping forehead.
The shape of the male face is influenced by exposure to hormones as features such as the
brow ridge, jaw, chin, nose and cheekbones have testosterone receptors.
This 18-millimeter-thick
brow ridge is thicker than any modern male ape's
brow ridge.
The face is tall with a massive
brow ridge, yet the mid-face is short (in superoinferior dimension) and less prognathic than in (chimpanzee) or Australopithecus,'' one of the article said.
Sexually dimorphic features in male faces include a broad jaw, broad forehead, and more pronounced
brow ridge, while a sexually dimorphic female face has a more tapered chin, larger lips, and a narrower forehead.
supraorbital ridge - a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket