AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



black, extremely African negress as nurse 

 maid, the chimpanzee was so animatedly 

 friendly to this dear old mammy from the 

 very first moment of her entrance that 

 she soon fled, screaming with horror and 

 fright. I shall never forget the strong 

 impression made on me of the chimpan 

 zee s immediate apparent recognition of 

 Matilda as an old acquaintance; she was 

 the kind of human being he knew about 

 and was interested in. Yet as he had been 

 brought to the Gardens as a baby and 

 had had really no personal acquaintance 

 ship with negroes, if he really knew Ma 

 tilda or had some sense of relationship 

 with her, it must have been a case of 

 biological memory. 



However, the biologist does not claim 

 that we are directly descended from the 

 chimpanzee or any other particular an 

 thropoid or particular lower kind of 

 monkey that we know, either living or 

 extinct. Some biologists favor an origin 

 from a generalized Lemurine type, others 

 from a Tarsius type, and others venture 

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