THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



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into genuine man and also those of development 1 



into a gibbon, chimpanzee, gorilla and orang-j 

 outang. Doubtless the greater part of his body 

 was covered with strong hair, such as the present 

 anthropoid apes have inherited from him. He 

 is a real, genuine, living "Esau." The fact that 

 the smooth "Jacob," man of to-day, has only a 

 very slight indication of this hairy covering on 

 most parts of his body, is not a proof to the con- 

 trary. For we find the instructive law on the 

 resemblances of the youthful forms to their an- 

 cestors gives us a very satisfactory clue to our 

 original ancestor: the body of the human being 

 in the mother's womb is also, in its first stages, 

 covered with thick woolly hair. Even the face 

 is covered just as we see it to-day in the case of 

 the adult gibbon, and only the inner surfaces of 

 the hands and feet are left free. Evidently these 

 free places were uncovered, even in the ancestor 

 which this human embryo copies for a short time. 

 This Esau-like covering of the human being does 

 not disappear until immediately before birth, and 

 in a few exceptional cases, this covering has even 

 been retained during life. This is the origin of 

 the renowned men with dog faces. 



Now we come to a new question. What is the 

 ancestor of that archetype? In what other dis- 



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