BIMANA. 



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The Oreopithccus of the Italian Miocene is another ancient 

 Catarhine, with some points of affinity to some of the 

 generalised types of the primitive Ungulates in the structure 

 of its teeth. The Upper Miocene of Greece, again, has 

 yielded the remains of an interesting Monkey, to which 

 Gaudry has given the name of Mcsopithecus Fentelici. In 

 its cranial characters this genus resembles the living Semno- 

 2oithecus of Asia, but the structure of the limbs is similar to 

 that of the Macaques (Macacus). The remaining members 

 of the fossil Catarhina belong to genera which still survive. 

 Thus the Asiatic genus Semnopithccus is found in the Upper 

 Miocene deposits of the Siwalik Hills in India, and in the 

 Pliocene of France and Italy. The Asiatic and African 

 genus Macacus occurs in the Upper Miocene of the Siwalik 

 Hills, and in the Pliocene of Italy and of the South of 

 England. Lastly, the African genus Ceixopithecus is found 

 in the Pliocene deposits of France. 



Okder XVII. BiMANA. — This, the last remaining order of 

 the Mammalia, comprises Man {Homo) alone, and it will 

 therefore require but little notice here, the peculiarities of 

 Man's mental and physical structure properly belonging to 

 other branches of science. 



Fig. 691.— A, Skiill of the Orang-outang ; b, Skull of an adult European. 



Zoologically, Man is distinguished from all other Mammals 

 by his habitually erect posture and bipedal progression. The 

 lower limbs are exclusively devoted to progression and to 



