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“Imperfect language, they can hardly understand one 
another; true physiognomy of small blue ape of Kaffaria; about 
five feet high; scanty tufts of hair, short bristly beard ; sight 
as good as an Huropean’s with a telescope ; wide flattened nostrils 
very sensitive ; trusts as much to his nose as his eyes. Children 
(p. 273), skull projecting exceedingly behind; short, woolly 
hair growing so low down on forehead that they look as if 
they were afflicted with hydrocephalus.” 
I presume the hair is thinner in adults than in children 
from these remarks, and the beard to be a mere rudiment of that 
possessed by his quadrumanous ancestors. 
As to the size of the animal from which Man came it seems 
most probable, from the short stature of the Bosjesman, as well 
as from the fact that the human foetus shews legs only about 
as long as the arms, that Man came from a small form of 
monkey. This is supported by another fact, that increase of 
stature is a developmental variation in Man under favourable 
conditions; and Darwin says that the social habits of Man 
would more likely arise from his ancestors being small and 
having of necessity to band together for protection from 
common foes. This very banding may have been the cause of 
the increase of intellect and improvement of speech, which 
gradually made a monkey into Man. 
Now the various steps by which Man has been evolved—in 
fact the ancestry of Man as shewn by part of his own ontogeny 
—may be summed up as follows :— 
1.—A quadrumanous animal with body and face covered 
with hair, which hair shewed an inclination to become 
thinner in later life: and with a tail of which he 
made no great use. LHarlier inheritance of these 
features in time produced— 
2.—A quadrumanous animal without a tail and without 
hair on the front of the body, while the rest of 
the hair became thinner with age. This animal 
was beginning to favour the erect position. The 
earlier inheritance of the above for many genera- 
tions produced— 
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