OUR BEST FEATURES 



the anti-evolutionist could find little justification 

 for setting man apart from the rest of creation on 

 this account, for we find that every one of the 

 characters cited above is the common property of 

 normal land-living mammals and that the evolution 

 of some of these structures, such as the lacrymal 

 apparatus and the third eyelid, can be traced with 

 convincing detail through the various branches of 

 the vertebrate tree lying between the human and 

 the shark branches. 



Moreover we are compelled to cause even further 

 distress to the indomitable critics of the Darwinian 

 theory of human origin by bringing forward again 

 their special horror, the anthropoid apes and 

 monkeys. For nowhere will more convincing mor- 

 phological evidence of the relatively very close re- 

 lationship of man to these animals be found than 

 in a detailed comparison of the anatomy and 

 physiology of the paired eyes. And when to these 

 resemblances in the visual organs between man 

 and anthropoid, we add the striking identity in the 

 complex arrangements and connections of the optic 

 tracts within the brain, as reported by the lead- 

 ing students of the human and anthropoid brains, 



the evidence for Darwin is heaped still higher. 



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