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PRIMATES. 



similar to Gorilla, but the mandibular symphysis is shorter, the skull 

 is without the sagittal crest and the males and females are very similar, 

 the former having larger canine teeth. Height does not exceed 5 feet. 

 Vocal sacs as in Gorilla. Arms reach but a slight distance below the 

 knee. They walk with the flat of their soles upon the ground, either 

 with or without the support of their arms. They have a lively and com- 

 paratively gentle disposition and are tameable. 



FIG. 333. Gorilla gorilla (from Vogt and Specht). 



Homo * L., 1 sp., H. sapiens L., world wide in distribution. Fore-limbs 

 shorter than the hind-limbs, the fore-limbs reaching a little below the 

 middle of the thigh. The carpus is without a centrale. The hallux is 



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 1887-89. Flower, On the classification of the varieties of the human 

 species, Journ. Anthrop. Inst. Gt. Brit, and Ireland, 1885. Fraipont and 

 Lohest, La race humaine de Neanderthal ou de Canstadt, Arch. Biol., 7, 

 1887, p. 587. Wiedersheim, The Structure of Man, etc., London, 1895. 

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