Identifier: evolutionofmanpo02hae (find matches)
Title: The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogene
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919
Subjects: Evolution Embryology, Human Anatomy, Comparative Human beings
Publisher: New York, Fowle
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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ines (the Sea-cat, Macaque, Baboon). Even withinthe small group of the Tail-less man-like Apes (Anihro-poides) the several genera do not differ less from each otherthan they do from Men. This is seen by a glance at theskeletons represented here, as arranged by Huxley (Figs.204-208). If the skull, or the vertebral column, togetherwith the rib-system, or the anterior or posterior members,are compared; or if the comparison is extended to themuscular system, the circulatory system, the brain, etc.,a candid and unprejudiced examination always results inthe same conclusion, that Man does not differ more fromthe higher Catarhines than the extreme forms of the latter(for example, the Gorilla and Baboon) differ from eachother. We can, therefore, complete the important propo-sition already quoted from Huxley: We may take what-ever system of organs we will,—the comparison of theirmodifications within the ranks of the Catarhinse leads ua 178 THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. bD fe ;(> i r^X 1^ ft, © ce
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EVOLUTION OF )MAN FROM APES. 1/9 to one and the same conclusion : that the anatomical <:lif-ferences that distinguish ITan from the most highly developedCatarhinse (the Orang, Gorilla, Chimpanzee), are not so greatas those which separate the latter from the lowest CatarhinaR(Sea-cat, Macaque, Baboon). We must, therefore, consider the proof complete, that Manis descended from other Narrow-nosed Apes (Catarhinw),Although future researches into the Comparative Anatomyand Ontogeny of the existing Catarhines, as well as of theirfossil relatives, promise us various new details, yet nofuture discovery can ever overthrow that important pro-position. Our Catarhine ancestors must, of course, havepassed through a long series of varied forms, before Manfinally developed as the most perfect form. The followingmust be considered as the most important advances bywhich this Creation of Man, his differentiation from themost nearly allied Catarhine Apes, was effected : Habituationto upright carriage

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