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hand answers to the " cannon " bone of the horse, or the region 

 from the " knee " (wrist) to the fetlock-joint, while the free finger of 

 man answers to the fetlock region and hoof of the horse. These 

 relations should be studied in Fig. 7. Similarly, only the end 

 of the thigh-bone of the horse projects beyond the belly. The 



FIG. 7. Skeleton of man and horse compared, to show the relative differences in the form 

 and position of the bones ; the horse represents the extreme development of quadrupedal 

 locomotion, that of the man the extreme development of bipedal locomotion. (After 

 Flower.) The closely dotted bone is the shoulder-blade. 



" stifle-joint " of the horse answers to the " knee " of man. 

 The region from the stifle-joint to the " hock " answers to the 

 leg of man from the knee to the ankle, which is the "hock" 

 of the horse. The bone supporting the third toe, that which lies 



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