The Mammals and Man 



(Fig. 131). These represent a further step towards the final climax 

 of the primate group. 



A special class has to be made for the four genera of Old- 

 World apes illustrated in Figs. 132 to 136. These are the Gorilla 

 and Chimpanzee, which are African in distribution, and the 



FIG. 135. The Gorilla. 



Gibbon and Orang, which are Asiatic. They are termed the 

 Anthropoid or man-like apes, and there can be no question that 

 they are the nearest living relatives of the human species. This 

 is seen in their general build, which is man-like in a high degree ; 

 by many similarities, even in the minutest details, in their skeleton 

 and muscular system ; and by the fact that their brain, while 

 still greatly inferior to that of man, is by as much superior to that 



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