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will not be strictly man-apes, nor apo-incii, })ut rather priinitivo 

 creatures unitin«i; the i)ossiI)iliti('s of hotli. From that condition 

 men and aj)es have since 

 diverged and will con- 

 tinue to diverge. 



There is no doubt of -A 



the truth of Huxley's 

 statement : 



■'Thus \vh;itever systciii 

 Oi organs be studied, the 

 comparison of their modi- 

 fications in the ai>e series 

 leads to one and tlie same 

 result — that the strnetnral 

 differences which sei)arate 

 man from the gorilla and 

 the chimpanzee are not so 

 great as those which separate the gorilla from ihc lova i ajn-ni.' 



In;. USti. i If:i4| of j^Di :iia. ^Af'tT iit«'iim,; 



In fact; as Haeckel has obs'"\-< 1, 



"It is very diificult to show wiiy man shouM not l>e classed with 

 the large apes in the same zoological family. Wc al! know a iimn from 



an ape, liut it is (|uite an- 

 other thing to fiiul dilTiT- 

 ences which are absohile 

 ami not of dj'^rr''** onlv." 



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It nia\ Im» l»roatlIy 

 statiMJ tliat man differs 

 from the apes in the 

 combination of the ft»l- 

 lowiiig cliaracters: (1) 

 Erect walk : (2) ex- 

 tremities different iatc^l 

 accordingly, the p: 

 toe not U'ing op] 

 able, the other toes lilih' |»rehensile; (3) articulate siHvch: (4) 

 higher reasoning power. The erect walk is not an al>soIutc 

 character. The higher aju'S walk on their feet, touching the 

 ground at times with their knuckles. The taileti nionki-ya 



i^io. 287.— Face of gorilla, (.\ftcr Brchm.) 



