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foot just as in the foot of man. There are also 

 the same differences between the arrangement of 

 the bones of the anthropoid wrist and ankle as 

 between the wrist and ankle bones of man. What- 

 ever set of anatomical particulars may be selected, 

 whether it be hands, arms, feet, muscles, skull, 

 viscera, ribs, or dentition, it is found that the 

 anthropoid races and men are in all essentials the 

 same. The differences are such as have arisen as 

 a result of different modes of life, and such as 

 exist between different tribes of either group of 

 animals. 



' The structural differences which separate man 

 from the gorilla and chimpanzee,' says Huxley, in 

 summing up the conclusion of his brilliant inquiry 

 into ' Man's Place in Nature,' ' are not so great as 

 those which separate the gorilla from the lower 

 apes.' 



' The body of man and that of the anthropoid 

 are not only peculiarly similar,' says Haeckel, 

 'but they are practically one and the same in 

 every important respect. The same two hundred 

 bones, in the same order and structure, make up 

 our inner skeleton ; the same three hundred 

 muscles effect our movements ; the same hair 

 clothes our skin ; the same four-chambered heart 

 is the central pulsometer in our circulation ; the 

 same thirty-two teeth are set in the same order in 

 our jaws ; the same salivary, hepatic, and gastric 

 glands compass our digestion ; the same repro- 

 ductive organs insure the maintenance of our 

 race ' (5). 



