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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



in whom this organ is too short. On comparing the face of 

 this nosed monkey with that of specially ape-like human 

 beings {e.g., the noted Julia Pastrana, Fig. 126), the 



Fig. 125. — Head of a nose-ape (Semnopithecus nasicus) from Bomeo. 

 (After Brehm.) 



Fig. 126. — Head of Julia Pastrana. (From a photograph by Hintze.) 



former will appear a higher form of development than the 

 latter. There are very many persons who believe that the 

 " image of God " is unmistakably reflected in their own 

 features. If the Nosed-ape shared in this singular opinion, 

 he would hold it with a better right than some snub-nosed 

 people.-^'^^ 



This gradually progressive separation, this increasing 

 divergence of the human from the animal form, which 

 depends on the law of the ontogentic connection between 

 systematically allied forms, is seen not only in the external 

 structui'e of the body, but also in the formation of the 

 internal organs. It is even expressed in the formation 

 of the coverings and appendages that are found round the 

 outside of the embryo, and which we are now about to 

 consider somewhat more in detail. Two of these appen- 

 dages, the amnion and the allantois, belong only to the 



