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gression equally with the feet, and the hands are only adapted 
for uses similar to those of our hands when the animal is at rest, 
and then but clumsily. Lastly, the apes are all hairy animals, 
like the majority of other mammals, man alone having a 
smooth and almost naked skin. These numerous and striking 
differences, even more than those of the skeleton and internal 
Fig. 37.—Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger). 
anatomy, point to an enormously remote epoch when the race 
that was ultimately to develop into man diverged from that 
other stock which continued the animal type and ultimately 
produced the existing varieties of anthropoid apes. 
Summary of the Animal Characteristics of Man. 
The facts now very briefly summarised amount almost to 
a demonstration that man, in his bodily structure, has been 
derived from the lower animals, of which he is the culminating 
development. In his possession of rudimentary structures 
