The molars also differ much in the two animals in relative size and structure.

The adult dentition is preceded by a widely different milk dentition.

Any one may, of course, deny that the teeth in either case have been adapted for tearing flesh, through the natural selection of successive variations; but if this be admitted in the one case, it is unintelligible to me that it should be denied in the other.

I am glad to find that so high an authority as Professor Flower has come to this same conclusion.