AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



THE BIOLOGIST AND PRESENT MAN 



Now all this consideration of man's 

 origin prepares, even compels, the bio- 

 logical student of present-day human life 

 to recognize many characteristics of this 

 life as vestigial, that is, as carried over 

 from pre-human life and from prehistoric 

 human life. It compels him also to face 

 the fact, that if the human body and its 

 capacities are recognized as derived by 

 the more or less understood processes of 

 organic evolution from other lower animal 

 bodies and endowments, with no intro- 

 duction of supernatural means to give 

 human life qualitatively different capaci- 

 ties supernatural ones, they might be 

 called then he must not only expect to 

 find human life influenced by inherited 

 carry-overs from man's animal ancestors 

 but he must expect to find the human 

 body and its behavior and its fate subject 

 in greater or less degree to the influence 

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