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are paralleled among the " brutes " ; " theromorphic " 

 monsters corroborate the alliance. 



(2) Morphological. The structure of man is like that of 

 the anthropoid apes ; none of his anatomical distinctions, 

 except that of a heavy brain, are momentous ; there are 



Fig. 527. — Restoration of head of Homo neanderthalensis. — 



After MacGregor, 



about eighty vestigial structures in his muscular, skeletal, 

 and other systems. 



(3) Historical. Certainties in regard to remains of 

 primitive man are few, but his individual development reads 

 like a recapitulation of ancestral history. 



To many, man seems too marvellous to have been natur- 

 ally evolved ; to others the evidence seems insufficient ; but 



