AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



very great importance to most of us, 

 if we once accept this evolutionary ex- 

 planation of origin, whether man is 

 traced backward to this or that particular 

 kind of anthropoid ape, or other less 

 anthropoid ancestor. However, when we 

 watch a chimpanzee for some time we 

 come to have a hope that he is not the 

 particular anthropoid whom the biologist 

 would ask us to recognize with any 

 filial admiration or affection. The feeling 

 is even more marked when the orang-utan 

 or the gorilla is the object of our curiosity. 

 It is true, though, that if we watch a 

 chimpanzee long enough a rather unset- 

 tling feeling is likely to grow on us that 

 there is something uncannily familiar 

 about him. He seems to be a caricature 

 of some people we know; he behaves curi- 

 ously like some children, other people's 

 children, that we recall. 



I had an experience with a chimpanzee 



once in Berlin, which sticks always in my 



memory. I was giving at the time, as a 



student of zoology, some special attention 



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