A MACAQUE MONKEY 



Especially worthy of note is the form of the ear in this specimen, since it is pointed pos- 

 teriorly. In rare cases in man a point of the ear may be found turned in. (Fig. 11.) 



say that it is not true that "the cranio- 

 facial angle varies from 90° to 120°," nor 

 that the "superciliary ridges are little 

 developed;" neither is "a long styloid 

 process" always present in the skulls of 

 Homo. 



As a matter of fact, while the char- 

 acters referred to by Mivart as exempli- 

 fying the anatomical organization of 

 man, contrasted with that of the simians 

 or apes, are generally to be found in the 

 higher races of men — ^more particularly 

 the highest races — they are frequently 

 absent in lower ones, as for instance 

 among negroes, native Australians, and 

 the like, where we meet with examples 

 that are quite ape-like in some parts of 

 their anatomical organization. As for 

 that, I have examined negro skulls 

 wherein the jaws were very large and 

 powerful ; the nasal spine almost aborted; 

 the superciliary ridges prominently de- 

 veloped ; the maxillo-premaxillary suture 

 present in the adult; the cranio-facial 



angle very small, and so on through the 

 category. These characters, as found in 

 the skulls of negroes, are fully set forth 

 in my recent work on "The American 

 Negro," and in numerous articles on the 

 subject, published during the past 

 thirty-five years. 



ANTHROPOIDEA DIFFER WIDELY 



Anatomically, the Anthropoidea differ 

 widely among themselves — that is, the 

 higher apes, the monkeys, gibbons, and 

 marmosets; this is also true of many 

 races of men. This is quite apart from 

 their anatomy or physical organization; 

 for in that matter the morphology of the 

 lowest form of monkey is quite as com- 

 plex as that of the highest type of man. 

 To be sure, the brain of the latter pos- 

 sesses the greater number of convolu- 

 tions, and there are other structural 

 differences; but, part for part, the 

 organization of the one is reproduced in 

 the other. Some structures may be 



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