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THE RISE OF MAN. 



have a very hard time of it. Being vegetarians they need 

 a greater mass of food than if they were carnivorous, and 

 it is not impossible that the man-ape who rose to the 

 higher existence of an ape-man and finally to that of man, 

 had one great advantage over his less fortunate cousins 

 by changing his diet. The anthropoid apes have to put 



LAR AND HULOCK. 

 After Hanhart. (Brehm's Thierleben, I, p. 94.) 



in all their time in hunting for food and eating it, while 

 the omnivorous ape-man gained more leisure and more- 

 over had his wits sharpened by becoming a hunter. 



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To the anthropologist the lower apes are less inter- 

 esting, but we may mention especially the long-armed 



