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surpasses the largest of the gorillas. After making 

 all due allowance for difference of size, the cranial 

 capacities of some of the lower apes fall nearly as 

 much, relatively, below those of the higher apes as 

 the latter fall below man. Thus, even in the im- 

 portant matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more 

 widely from one another than they do from the Apes ; 

 while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, 

 from the highest, as the latter does from Man." l 

 " What is true of these leading characteristics of the 

 skull holds good, as may be imagined, of all minor 

 features ; so that for every difference between the 

 Gorilla's skull and the Man's, a similar constant 

 difference of the same order (that is to say, consisting 

 in excess or defect of the same quality) may be found 

 between the Gorilla's skull and that of some other 

 Ape. So that, for the skull, no less than for the 

 skeleton in general, the proposition holds good, that 

 the differences between Man and the Gorilla are of 

 smaller value than those between the Gorilla and 

 some other Apes." 2 



Reference has been made more than once to 

 Owen's assertion that certain cerebral structures — the 

 posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the hippo- 

 campus minor — are peculiar to man, and to the evi- 



1 Man's Place in Nature, p. 78. 



2 Man's Place in Nature, p. 81. 



