Chap. VI. AFFINITIES AND GENEALOGY. 201 



Echidna, and other mammals. But all these breaks 

 depend merely on the number of related forms which 

 have become extinct. At some future period, not 

 very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races 

 of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace 

 throughout the world the savage races. At the 

 same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor 

 Schaaffhausen has remarked, 16 will no doubt be exter- 

 minated. The break will then be rendered wider, for 

 it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, 

 as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as 

 low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the 

 negro or Australian and the gorilla. 



With respect to the absence of fossil remains, serving to 

 connect man with his ape-like progenitors, no one will 

 lay much stress on this fact, who will read Sir C. Lyell's 

 discussion, 17 in which he shews that in all the vertebrate 

 classes the discovery of fossil remains has been an 

 extremely slow and fortuitous process. Nor should it 

 be forgotten that those regions which are the most 

 likely to afford remains connecting man with some 

 extinct ape-like creature, have not as yet been searched 

 by geologists. 



Lower Stages in the Genealogy of Man. — "We have seen 

 that man appears to have diverged from the Catarhine 

 or Old World division of the Simiadse, after these had 

 diverged from the New World division. We will now 

 endeavour to follow the more remote traces of his 

 genealogy, trusting in the first place to the mutual 

 affinities between the various classes and orders, with 

 some slight aid from the periods, as far as ascertained, 



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Anthropological Keview,' April, 1867, p. 236. y^C\ C A 



Elements of Geology/ 1865, p. 583-585. 'Antiquity of/MH^y 

 1863, p. 115. A^0 00 ° * 



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