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orbiU; in the gorilla the forehead is hollowed out. Tlie 

 hinder portion of the bruin isalbC mnch mure develop 

 man than in the apes, and in the hinder part of the hemi- 

 spheres the convolutions are more numerous than in the 

 chimpanzee, this part in monkeys losing its convolutions 

 altogether (Wvman). Man stands erect; his arms span a 

 distance equal to his height; the spinal column has four 

 curves ; the skin of the hands and feet of man is highly 

 sensitive, compared with that of the apes. Finally, as 

 Cuvier stated, the grand distinctive zoological character 

 separating man from the other animals is the possession of 

 the power of speech. 



Fio 334.— Skull of a Negro, showing its prognathism. 



Sometimes in man the coccyx has one or two more joints 

 than the normal number, but the apes have no tail. The 

 black and Australian races are slightly nearer the apes than 

 civilized peoples. In apes, as in the lower mammals, the 

 pelvis is higher than wide: when there is a d D in 



the human pelvis it tends to become higher than wide, as 

 seen in the pelvis of the Hottentots. In civilized man the 

 legs are one half the height of the body, but in the South 

 Africans. Hottentots, and Bushmen the legs are a little 

 than half the height, and the thigh -h -nod from 



side to side, as in the gorilla. The waist is broader ic the 

 African than in the European; the S ^ is not lo: 



in negroes than in the white man, the larger heel of the 

 former being simply due to an expansion of the soft p:. 



The form of the skull varies gi atlv in the different races, 



