1 66 Thomas Henry Huxley 



The second great point in which a modern writer 

 would amend Huxley's statement of the case is more 

 purely anatomical. One result of Darwin's work has 

 been that anatomists attend much more closel}^ to the 

 slight variations of anatomical structure to be found 

 among individuals of the same species. A comparison 

 between an individual human bod}'^ and the body of an 

 individual gorilla is not now considered sufficient. The 

 comparison must be made between the results of dissec- 

 tion of a ver}' large number of men and of a very large 

 number of gorillas. The anatomy of a type is not the 

 anatomy of an individual ; it is a kind of central point 

 around which there oscillate the variations presented b)' 

 the individuals belonging to the type. So far as this 

 newer method has been applied, it has been found that 

 the variations of the gorilla type frequenth^, in the case 

 of individual organs, overlap the variations of the hu- 

 man tj'pe, and that the structure of man differs from 

 the structure of any anthropoid type only in that the 

 abstract central point of its variations is slightly differ- 

 ent from the abstract central point of the variations 

 presented by individual orangs, gorillas, and chim- 

 panzees. 



