Till. OBIG "I m \N 4:; 



the same in a! mental I.-LMI-!-. In nil e*m*iitial 



features the sets of bone parts are closely shuilar* 

 Now it w- turn to structures other than the skeleton, we 



tin- 1 then- an- MUIH- r.-mai lable similarities in certain 



:!. we think of hairiness of 



the apes as distinguishing them rather -liar-ply from man, 



but in r.-.-i it\ th.- whole of the human body 18 covered 

 with ilnis of tin- hand*, the soles of the 



feet, and the backs > linal joints; these 



same j < .airless in ape-. M<>: i he slant 



of the hair in n-ir'nms of th- . notably 



on the arms, i- the same that we observe in apes. In 

 apes and man there i> i of the ancestral 



functional tail i!:e coccyx, in fact, a reduced tail. 7 Our 

 ears are sliirhtly. if at all movable. \.-t we retain in a 

 -rial condition the muscles which in some ancestor 

 must have served to move the ears.* The vermiform ap- 

 \ is less developed in man than in the apes, and is 

 relatively larger in the human t'-etus than in adult man. 

 r. at tli.- binei angle Of the human eye is a fold 

 -<ue which has littN- r n n unless it IK? ex- 



plained as a r'innant .!' that third eyelid which in many 

 rates, for example, birds, is greatly devel- 

 oped ami can !> drawn over the whole eyeball inside the 

 ..iit,.i- .\.-lids. Unless we regard these vestigial struc 

 in man as the -i rarlier condition through 



rs have passed, t) rs no intelli- 



ug. 



e study of em) veals many points of re- 



seinhlaiii-e the human einhrvo. in the earliT 



op. rif.. pp 74 93; Me tea If, op. r.'f.. pp. 167-17S. 

 Set figure 8. 



figure 9. Set figure IO. 



