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Thomas Henry Huxley 



are not the actual ancestors of man, but cousins, 

 descendants like man from some more or less remote 

 common ancestor. And the tendency of recent ad- 

 vances in knowledge is more and more to throw stress 

 on the value of Huxley's distinction, and to minimise 

 confusion between "intermediate" and truly ances- 

 tral types. 



