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bodily life is closely similar; the human body 

 is a rich collection of vestigial structures; 

 some of the fossil remains are nearer the 

 anthropoid type; mania individual develop- 

 ment^ in some ways like a recapitulation of 

 hispresumed ancestral history. 



Tnere is a fine ring in the closing words of 

 "The Descent of Man": 



"Wg^ mu sly however, acknowledge as it 

 seems to me, tJiaLaaaj3*_jadth all his noble 

 qualities, with sympathy which feels for the 

 most debased, with benevolence which ex- 

 tends not only to other men, but to the 

 humblest living creature, with his God-like 

 intellect which has penetrated into the move- 

 ments and constitution of the solar system 

 with all these exalted powers man 



ITT Tm hnHily fmm" th" iirHiMf* ntnmp 



of Vy'q Ifiwly origin?* 



Man's antiquity is to be measured not in 

 centuries but in millennia. It is perhaps^ 

 150^000 years since he used stone weapons \n 



TjVij>P flfrgnnst. rnflmmfttTi nyifl rliinaoyyoq , 



hyaena and lion, and these weapons were not 

 the work of novices. No fossil remains of 

 man _hajgfi_been found gxcepfTnTostTTertiary 

 (iHIuvial) deposits, ISut tLere are Several 

 reasons for believing that his origin was very 

 much earlier. Thus, for instance, it is cer- 

 tain that he did not arise from any of the 



