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Darwin, and after Darwin. 



and no cry uttered, until the grasp begins to give 

 way." 



(5) Tail. The absence of a tail in man is popularly 

 supposed to constitute a difficulty against the doctrine 

 of his quadrumanous descent. As a matter of fact, 

 however, the absence of an external tail in man is 



MAN 



GORILLA 



FIG. 15. Sacrum of Gorilla compared with that of Man, showing the 

 rudimentary tail- bones of each. Drawn from nature (A 1 . Coll. Surg. 

 Mus). 



precisely what this doctrine would expect, seeing that 

 the nearest allies of man in the quadrumanous series 

 are likewise destitute of an external tail. Far> then, 

 from this deficiency in man constituting any difficulty 

 to be accounted for, if the case were not so i.e. if man 

 did possess an external tail, the difficulty would be 



