HIE Kira-mox or MAX. 



summed up the general result of his investigations in M r- 

 e?pec^ appropriate: 



Now thai, by the Theory of Descent, we hare discovered 

 tins - mystical law, 1 ' have solved thfe c sacred enigma** now 

 that we can explain the similarity of forms by Heredity. 

 and their dissimilarity by Adaptation, we can find no 

 i the whole rich .renal of Completive Anatomv 



which deiend* the troth of the Theory of Descent more 

 powerfully than the comparison of the internal skeletons 



of the vanoos VcrlUJiHrat<ak. We uuty^ therefore, 



. The inner vertebrate 

 s to the Phjkgeny of 



be gained from 

 ite Ontogeny** 



any other system of organs, the internal 

 ofVortebtatc^whensiiKlicdcamparativel^ckaHy 

 and immediately impresses the observer with the Boaostty 

 cfti]Blg^lBRdfeeM^ 



very varied forms. A thooghtfbl comparison of the bony 

 of Man with that of other Mammab, and of these 

 with that of lower Tertebratea, is alone sufficient to 

 of the true tribal relationship of afl 

 Vertebrates. AH the *rf*r*t** parts of which lids 



