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of South Africa ; but the yellow Pygmy (to judge from those which I have 

 seen) not only never has this feature exaggerated, but, on the contrary, 

 tends rather to a poor development of the buttocks, this adding considerably 



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to his simian appearance; for, as the late Professor Owen pointed out, the 

 anthropoid apes are " bird-rumped," without the great development of the 

 gluteal muscles characteristic of man, and caused by his erect carriage of 

 the body. 



