92 MAN AND APES. 



the higher apes resemble man in the absence 

 of this condition, they share that resemblance 

 with all the lower forms of the order, since no 

 cheek-pouches exist in the Cebidce or in any of 

 the Lemuroidea. 



Passing now to internal anatomy, it will be 

 well to dwell with care on the characters 

 presented by the skeleton. "Without a patient 

 consideration of manv details, it will be im- 

 possible to arrive at any sure result as to the 

 question under consideration, or as to that 

 which is to follow. Hasty conclusions, de- 

 rived from a few characters only, will be cer- 

 tain to mislead us in any investigation of the 

 teaching of nature with respect to the affinities 

 of organised beings. 



The back-bone of man exhibits a beautiful 

 sigmoid curvature, and is strongly convex in 

 front in the lumbar region. Now it is not 

 in the latisternal apes, but in some of the 

 Baboons, that we meet with the nearest re- 

 semblance to man in this particular. 



The lumbar region of the back-bone ex- 



