orangutan smile

[John Grehan]

I mentioned earlier on Taxacom that the closed-mouth smile appears to be
unique to humans and orangutans. After further communications with several
primatologists this characteristic appears to still hold true. I now have a
color picture of an orangutan with the smile at:
http://www.sciencebuff.org/primates/Human%20origins/Orangutan-human/Evidencefororangutan.htm

It is located at the bottom of the page under potential synapomorphies.

John Grehan

Dr. John Grehan
Director of Science and Collections
Buffalo Museum of Science
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