OUR BEST FEATURES 



pro-anthropoids, those intelligent beings who 

 elected to develop sight at the expense of smell. 

 These skilled acrobats, moving in a vertical 

 position, met and solved a new series of problems 

 connected with the turning downward of the 

 skull upon the upright column. They also made 

 the first notable attempts to shorten and deepen 

 the face and even took a long step toward enlarg- 

 ing the brain and brain chamber. 



Starting with these and many like advantages 

 gained during a long training in arboreal life, it 

 was the task of our relatively nearer precursors 

 (beginning possibly in Miocene times, or earlier) to 

 re-adapt all these arboreal adaptations for a life 

 on the ground and to take the final steps upward 

 that have brought humanity to its present levels 

 of intelligence. 



Wholly ignorant of the facts, the ancient Jewish 



priests indulged themselves in the fancy that man was 



made in the image of God; but modern science shows 



that the god-like mask which is the human face is 



made out of the same elements as in the gorilla; and 



that in both ape and man the bony framework of the 



face is composed of strictly homologous elements, 



inherited from a long line of lower vertebrates. 



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