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general resemblance to that of man [including even the occa- 

 sional appearance of the projecting point shown in the preceding 

 woodcut]. It is evident that the folding over of the tip of such 

 an ear, unless it changed greatly during its further development, 

 would give rise to a point projecting inwards '. 



Fig. 21. — Foetus of an Orang. Exact copy of a photograph, 

 showing the form of the ear at this early stage. 



The following woodcut serves still further to show 

 vestigial resemblances between the human ear and 

 that of apes. The last two figures illustrate the 

 general resemblance between the normal ear of foetal 

 man and the ear of an adult orang-outang. The 

 other two figures on the lower line are intended to 

 exhibit occasional modifications of the adult human 

 ear, which approximate simian characters somewhat 

 more closely than does the normal type. It will be 

 observed that in their comparatively small lobes these 

 ears resemble those of all the apes ; and that while the 

 outer margin of one is not unlike that of the Barbary 



' Descent of Man, and ed., pp. 15-16. 



