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  2. Mandible - Wikipedia

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    Amongst other functions, the jawbone is essential for chewing food. Owing to the Neolithic advent of agriculture (c. 10,000 BCE), human jaws evolved to be smaller. Although it is the strongest bone of the facial skeleton, the mandible tends to deform in old age; it is also subject to fracturing. Surgery allows for the removal of jawbone ...

  3. Maxilla - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the upper jaw includes the hard palate in the front of the mouth. [3] [4] The two maxillary bones are fused at the intermaxillary suture, forming the anterior nasal spine. This is similar to the mandible (lower jaw), which is also a fusion of two mandibular bones at the mandibular symphysis. The mandible is the movable part of the jaw.

  4. Facial skeleton - Wikipedia

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    The facial skeleton comprises the facial bones that may attach to build a portion of the skull. [1] The remainder of the skull is the neurocranium.. In human anatomy and development, the facial skeleton is sometimes called the membranous viscerocranium, which comprises the mandible and dermatocranial elements that are not part of the braincase.

  5. Jaw - Wikipedia

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    In the ape, there is a reinforcement to the lower jaw bone called the simian shelf. In the evolution of the mammalian jaw, two of the bones of the jaw structure (the articular bone of the lower jaw, and quadrate) were reduced in size and incorporated into the ear, while many others have been fused together. [3]

  6. Human jawbone found in Iowa river is thousands of years old ...

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    The jawbone is more than a piece of evidence, investigators found. It’s a piece of ancient history, the remains of a man who lived and died thousands of years ago.

  7. List of bones of the human skeleton - Wikipedia

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    Various bones of the human skeletal system. The axial skeleton, comprising the spine, chest and head, contains 80 bones. The appendicular skeleton, comprising the arms and legs, including the shoulder and pelvic girdles, contains 126 bones, bringing the total for the entire skeleton to 206 bones.

  8. Solving the mystery of a human jawbone found in an Arizona ...

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    Forensic genealogists solve a 21-year-old case, linking a jawbone to a U.S. Marine captain who died more than 70 years ago in Orange County. Solving the mystery of a human jawbone found in an ...

  9. Jawbone found by rock-collecting child identified as that of ...

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    A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident.