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in the Order of the Carnivora. If man had not been 

 his own classifier, he would never have thought of 

 founding a separate order for his own reception. 



It would be beyond my limits, and quite beyond my 

 knowledge, even to name the innumerable points of 

 structure in which man agrees with the other Primates. 

 Our great anatomist and philosopher, Prof. Huxley, has 

 fully discussed this subject, 5 and has come to the con- 

 clusion that man in all parts of his organisation differs 

 less from the higher apes, than these do from the lower 

 members of the same group. Consequently there " is 

 " no justification for placing man in a distinct order." 



In an early part of this volume I brought forward 

 various facts, shewing how closely man agrees in con- 

 stitution with the higher mammals ; and this agreement, 

 no doubt, depends on our close similarity in minute 

 structure and chemical composition. I gave, as 

 instances, our liability to the same diseases, and to the 

 attacks of allied parasites ; our tastes in common for the 

 same stimulants, and the similar effects thus produced, 

 as w r ell as by various drugs ; and other such facts. 



As small unimportant points of resemblance between 

 man and the higher apes are not commonly noticed in 

 systematic works, and as, when numerous, they clearly 

 reveal our relationship, I will specify a few such points. 

 The relative position of the features are manifestly the 

 same in man and the Quadrumana; and the various 

 emotions are displayed by nearly similar movements of 

 the muscles and skin, chiefly above the eyebrows and 

 round the mouth. Some few expressions are, indeed, 

 almost the same, as in the weeping of certain kinds of 

 monkeys, and in the laughing noise made by others, 

 durino: which the corners of the mouth are drawn back- 



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Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature,' 1SG3, p. 70, et passim. 



