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the Semi-apes, with which it is even at present closely 
allied, through the flying lemurs (Galeopithecus). Of the 
two orders of flying animals, the insect-eating forms, or 
flying mice (Nycterides), probably developed out of those 
eating fruits, or flying foxes (Pterocynes) ; for the latter are, 
in many ways, more closely allied to Semi-apes than are the 
former. — 
We have now still to discuss the genuine Apes (Simiz) 
as the last order of Mammals; but as, according to the 
zoological system, the human race belongs to this order, and 
as it undoubtedly developed historically out of a branch 
of this order, we shall devote a special chapter to a more 
careful examination of its pedigree and history. 
