Man and Monkeys 199 



The individual development of man is in its early 

 stages closely like that of the higher Primates. No 

 doubt there is specificity; from first to last Homo 

 sapiens is himself and no other. Yet he does seem to 

 climb up his own genealogical tree; and arrests of 

 human development — in times of famine, for instance 

 — sometimes show Simian features. 



The everyday functions of the body are closely 

 alike in man and ape, and the disturbances of these 

 are sometimes similar. Certain diseases, like tubercle 

 and rheumatism, occur on both lines. The blood of 

 man mingles harmoniously when transfused into 

 that of an anthropoid ape (chimpanzee), but it does 

 not mingle harmoniously with the blood of a monkey, 

 showing that degrees of blood-relationship, in a very 

 literal sense, can be defined by blood-mingling experi- 

 ments. 



Finally, we must remember that there were "ten- 

 tative men" before Homo, vaguely known inter- 

 mediate beings that are in various ways "connecting 

 links" between man and the anthropoids; we must 

 recall the fact that Neanderthal man had Simian 

 features swarming in his body ; we must recognize the 

 fact that not all the living races of mankind are on 

 the same level. We can still see our "contemporary 

 ancestors." 



We have considerable sympathy with the im- 

 patience of the critic who says : Your language is of 

 the earth earthy; you speak as if man was only a 

 divergent mammal ; you are begging the whole ques- 

 tion by ignoring all that is most distinctive of Man — 



