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are well shown. They are complex, just as in the bees. 

 They involve ;the mating instinct, the care of young, the 

 storing of food, the finding of shelter and safety, as well 

 as the instincts of general gregariousness found in many 

 forms. These associative instincts lead to the home, to 

 marriage, to the family, and later to the larger family or 

 group made up of the immediate kindred. Thus tribes 



FIG. 158. Hand and foot of chimpanzee. From Home and Country Magazine. 



Questions on the Figure. Which is hand, and which foot? In 

 what particulars do they differ? How do they differ, respectively, 

 from those of man ? In which is the difference from the human 

 condition greater? What is the functional meaning of these differ- 

 ences? 



and clans and nations come to be bound together. It is 

 not claimed that this is the only way in which human 

 societies may be built up, hut there can be no question 

 that it has been so built up in many instances. 



In this growing complexity of society, customs, regula- 

 tions, and special institutions to accomplish certain ends 

 spring up just as the division of labor arose in the bee 



