THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



period ; in which both man and anthropoid apes 

 were found. One species, Mesopithecus, lived 

 in great numbers in Greece, where many bones 

 of them have been found. This Grecian monkey 

 had a very long tail. At the same time the form 

 of its nose and the position of its eyes gave it a 

 greater resemblance to the human being than any 

 of the present long-tailed monkeys have. On 

 the other hand, the light hearted crowd of long- 

 tailed monkeys has developed many characteris- 

 tics which tend toward a direction leading away 

 from man. There are, so to say, one-sidedly 

 bestialized forms, an extreme exaggeration of 

 which is the baboon family, for instance, the 

 grotesque mandril. The conclusion is inevita- 

 ble that once again, at this point, a line of descent 

 originally close to man has gradually deviated 

 into a bypath and produced many varieties of 

 monkeys now living in Asia and Africa. There^ 

 fore we should once more have to assume the 

 existence of an archetype out of which de-j 

 veloped, on the one hand, the original ancestor 

 of man and of the anthropoid apes, and, on the 

 other, that Grecian Mesopithecus and the many 

 side lines of African and Asian long-tailed mon^ 

 keys. Of course, this archetype would have to 

 be still a great deal more ancient than the pre- 

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