MAN AND APES. 105 



different in all the latisternal apes from what 

 exists in man. In this respect the Gorilla is 

 less like man than is the Chimpanzee, though 

 both are less unlike him than are the Orang 

 and Gibbons. In the Gibbons the arm and 

 hand attain about twice the relative length 

 attained in us. 



The analogous proportions of the leg and 

 foot show a near agreement between the 

 Orang and man. While the Gibbons and 

 Spider Monkeys have relatively longer legs 

 than we have, the Gorilla and Chimpanzee 

 have much shorter ones. If the foot be ex- 

 cluded from the calculation, then the Orang 

 differs the most from man, while the Gibbons 

 exhibit a remarkable conformity to him. 



In shape the blade-bone of the Gorilla is 

 singularly like that of man, but that of its 

 congener, the Chimpanzee, differs more from 

 man than does that of the Orang. 



The collar-bone, in both the Chimpanzee 

 and Gorilla, is much shorter when compared 

 with the blade-bone than it is in man. In the 



