MAN AND APES. 87 



the hand, as in most lower species. Yet we 

 find it m some of the Cebidce as in man. 



Passing to the solid, structures which the 

 hair clothes, we come to one of the most 

 characteristic peculiarities of the human body. 



The whole of the apes and the whole of 

 the Half-apes agree together, and differ from 

 man in having the great toe, or (as it is called 

 in anatomy) the hallux, so constructed as to 

 be able to oppose the other toes (much as our 

 thumb can oppose the fingers), instead of 

 beiug parallel with the other toes, and exclu- 

 sively adapted for supporting the body on the 

 ground. The prehensile character of the 

 hallux is fully maintained even in those forms 

 which, like the Baboons, are terrestrial rather 

 than arboreal in their habits, and are quite 

 quadrupedal in their mode of progression. 



It was this circumstance that led Cuvier to 

 give to that separate order in which he places 

 man alone, the name Bimana, while on the 

 order of apes and Lemurs he imposed the 

 term Quadrumana. 



