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mammal has yet been found in the miocene strata. It is true 

 that, by the exercise of his brains, man is more able to render 

 himself independent of external conditions than other animals ; 

 cold, for instance, leading to warmer clothes in the one, to 

 more fur in the other ; still, judging from the analogy of other 

 species, I am disposed to think that in the miocene period 

 man was probably represented by anthropoid apes, more nearly 

 resembling us than do any of the existing quadrumana. We 

 need not, however, expect necessarily to find the proofs in 

 Europe ; our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom are con- 

 fined to hot, almost to tropical climates ; and though we know 

 that during parts of the miocene period the climate of Europe 

 was warmer than at present, so that monkeys lived much 

 north of their present limits, still it is in the warmer regions 

 of the earth that we are, perhaps, most likely to find the 

 earliest traces of the human race. 



