TWO NEGRO BOYS AND A YOUNG GORILLA 



ANIMAL ANCESTRY OF MAN 



x^mong the different problems that humanity must solve, 

 the problem of the flescent of man is one of the most interesting 

 .and important. 



Many people are interested in having a genealogy of some 

 hundred vears' duration and look with condescension upon 

 those who have not, but they dislike to extend their genealogy 

 ;as far as primitive man, to the animals, or the first cell. 



If an extensive genealogy gives the right to look down 

 upon those who have none, then the horses, camels, cattle and 

 swine have the right to look down upon us, because they 

 already had their ancestors when ours were not yet upon this 

 planet' So that we, as well as emperors, princes, counts and 

 barons are but parvenues in comparison with these animals. 



He who is above prejudice can have the certainty that he 

 is a hi.^hlv developed animal. 



The animal most closely related to us is the anthropoid 



ape. 



The distance between the anthropoid apes and man is 

 not so great as the distance between the anthropoid apes and 

 all other animals, including the inferior ape or monkey. There 

 are four species of anthropoid apes in existence: the gorilla 

 and the chimpanzee found in the Congo, the orang-outang and 

 the gibbon found in the East Indies. 



When seeing the great external resemblance between 

 men and apes, especially^the anthropoid kinds, the merecasual 

 observer must come to the conclusion that the dift'erence 



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