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gression equally with the feet, and the hands are only adapted 

 for uses similar to those of our hands when the animal is at rest, 

 and then but clumsily. Lastly, the apes are all hairy animals, 

 like the majority of other mammals, man alone having a 

 smooth and almost naked skin. These numerous and striking 

 differences, even more than those of the skeleton and internal 



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Fig. 37.— Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger). 



anatomy, point to an enormously remote epoch when the race 

 that was ultimately to develop into man diverged from that 

 other stock which continued the animal type and ultimately 

 jDroduced the existing varieties of anthropoid apes. 



Summary of the Animal Characteristics of Man. 



The facts now very briefly summarised amount almost to 

 a demonstration that man, in his bodily structure, has been 

 derived from the lower animals, of which he is the culminating 

 development. In his possession of rudimentary structures 



