MAN NATURALLY OMNIVOROUS, 189 



on account of the legs, which are included in the mea- 

 surement of tlie body In the former, and not in the latter. 

 The great depth of the cranium in man makes a fur- 

 ther addition to the length of body, and thereby dimi- 

 nishes the proportion which the intestine bears to it. As 

 our legs are half the height of the body, that should be re- 

 duced one half, when it is compared to that of animals 

 measured from the head to the anus ; or the length of tlie 

 intestines may be doubled. When allowance is made for 

 this circumstance, man will be placed nearly on the same 

 line with the monkey race, and will be removed to a con- 

 siderable distance from the proper carnlvora. Soemmerr- 

 ING * states that the intestinal canal of man varies from three 

 to eight times the length of the body. In Tyson's chim- 

 panse of 26 inches, the canal measured 159 inches, or about 

 six times the length of the body f. In two sapajous and two 

 monkeys the intestines were respectively 62 and 96 inches ; 

 as the body is said in all to have been about 14 inches from 

 the head to the anus, its proportion to the intestines will be 

 in the former as 1 : 4-^-'^ in the latter as 1 : 6^4 J. From 

 these as well as other instances it is apparent that the 

 comparative length of the alimentary canal in simise is less 

 than in man §. 



* De Corp. Hum. Fab. t. vi. p. 200. 



+ /Inat. of a Pygmy, p. 32. 



X Memoire.s pour servir a Vllist. Nat. lies Animaux; 4to. part. ii. page 

 225. 



§ The body, from the snout to the anus is to the intestines, in the 



Gibbon (S. Lar),as 1—8 



Sajou (Cercopithecus) I — 6 



Coaita (S. Paniscus) I — 6.3 



Patas (S. Patas) 1—6.5 



Callitriche (S. Sabaea) 1—6 



Malbrouk (S. Sinica) 1 — 6 



Masaque (S. Cynomolgus) 1 — 6.7 



Magot (Barbary Ape. S. Inuiis) 1 — 5.4 



Mandril (Ribbed-nose Baboon, S. Maimon) 1 — 8.2 



CuviKH, Leg. iVAnat. Comp. iii. 448. 



If we take the measuremeut of Soehihbkrivg, and double the length 



