Prognathism

Prognathism is that projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest savages.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

Prognathism is marked but variable according to the testimony of

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Prognathism is not uncommon in Japan, especially among the lower classes.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Prognathism is that projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest savages.

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

Prognathism, in anthropological language, means that particular projection of the jaw which modifies the facial angle.

Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

Prognathism "presents too many individual varieties to be taken as a distinctive character of race." [

The Negro 1915