130 MAN AND APES. 



human in this matter, but the short-tailed 

 Inclris is almost as much so, and excels the 

 G-orilla and all other latisternal apes. The 

 great toe of the Orang differs from that of 

 every other Primate in that the terminal 

 joint is often absent. 



In the proportion borne in length by the 

 great toe to the entire foot, man is most 

 closely resembled by the Gibbons and Chim- 

 panzee, while the Orang is the least human 

 of all Primates. In the diminutive develop- 

 ment of the hallux, as compared with the 

 pollex, the Orang is even more exceptional, 

 though an approximation to this is found in 

 the lowest of apes — the Marmosets. In the 

 proportion borne by the hallux to the pollex, 

 man and the Gorilla agree ; then comes the 

 Chimpanzee ; then the Gibbons, and, last of 

 all, the Orang. The Little Squirrel Monkey, 

 however, is almost as human as the Gorilla 

 in this proportion. 



Such are the main affinities towards man's 

 structure exhibited by the different kinds of 



