186 MAN AND APES. 



surrounding external conditions that the 

 origin of new specific forms is due.* 



The characters and relations exhihited to us 

 by the history of the highest order of mam- 

 mals — the order Primates, common to us and 

 to the apes — seems then not only fully to 

 corroborate, but to accentuate and intensify 

 the arguments advanced in the ' Genesis of 

 Species' in support of what the author believes 

 to be the more philosophical conception of 

 the cause and nature of "specific genesis" 

 generally. 



Not only is there abundant reason to 

 believe that apes and Half-apes have little, 

 if any, closer genetic affinity than they have 

 either with Lions or with "Whales, but there 

 is some evidence to support the belief that 

 the apes of the Old and of the New Worlds 

 respectively (the Simiadce and Cebidw) have 

 been created independently one of the other, 

 and that the various common characters they 

 exhibit are but parallel adaptive modifica- 



* Op. cit. p. 251. chap, xi., on Specific Genesis. 



