between these animals and man cannot be great; at all events^ 

 that in the whole animal kingdom there is not a single oeing" 

 which is so very much like man. 



When we look at it from a scientific point of view, all 

 the parts of the body, both external and internal, which we: 

 find in man are also found in the anthropoid apes. 



The number of bones forming the skeleton (about 200) 

 is the same, as is also the number of muscles (about 300) by 

 which they are moved. 



Both the number and the position of the teeth are the 

 same with the anthropoid apes and with man. 



SKELETONS 



MAN, GORILLA, CHIMPANZEE, OURANG-OUTANG AND GIBBON 



In each case the nervous elements, constituting the prin- 

 cipal 'components of the central nerve system (the brain and 

 tlie sDinal cord), are identical. 



The generative organs are built in the same way and 

 have identical functions ; the mature females of the anthropoid 

 apes have a periodic discharge of blood from the uterus 

 (womb) analogous to the menstruation of women. The secre- 

 tion of the milk and the nursing of the new-born are the same 

 with l)oth. 



The greatest resemblance, moreover, exists between the 

 embryo of the anthropoid ape and that of man. The way in 

 which it is fed in the body of the mother is the same with the 

 anthropoid ape and man. Both possess a ]3lacenta in the form 

 of a disc, formed in the same strikingly characteristic way, 

 dififerent from all monkeys and other animals. 



Blood examinations show that blood of the same forma- 



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