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lect that a full-grown Gorilla is probably pretty 

 nearly twice as heavy as a Bosjesman, or as 

 many an European woman." " It may be 

 doubted," adds the Professor, " whether a 

 healthy human adult brain ever weighed less 

 than 31 or 32 ounces, or that the heaviest 

 Gorilla brain has exceeded 20 ounces." x 



3. " This is a very noteworthy circumstance, 

 and doubtless will one day help to furnish an 

 explanation of the great gulf which intervenes 

 between the lowest man and the highest ape in 

 intellectual power, but it has little systematic 

 value " [Why ?] " for the simple reason that 

 . . . Regarded systematically, the cerebral 

 differences of man and apes are not of more 

 than generic value, his Family distinction resting 

 chiefly on his dentition, his pelvis, and his lower 

 limbs." * 



4. On this latter topic, however, Mr. Huxley 

 had previously said, " The pelvis, or bony girdle 

 of the hips, of man is a strikingly human part of 

 his organization." 3 Adding, " But now let us 

 turn to a nobler and more characteristic organ 

 that by which the human frame seems to be, 

 and indeed is, so strangely distinguished from 



1 " Man's Place in Nature," pi 102. 



* Ibid., p. 103. 



Ibid., p. 76. 



