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New World monkeys with broad noses. Man's place 

 with the Old "World forms. 



Darwin's work led to conclusion : If animal and 

 plant species arise through natural laws, if homology 

 is the stamp of heredity, then man must have arisen 

 through natural law. The homology of man with apes 

 indicates common heredity. Hence man must have 

 come from some Simian stock, some forms likewise an- 

 cestors of apes. Ancestoral man arboreal, hairy, with 

 long arms and pointed ears ; probably also nomadic. 



1. Theory of wholly independent origin of man. No 

 standing in science. " Resolved, That man was created 

 by an instantaneous process without previous animal 

 parentage." 



2. Assumption of descent of man from anthropoid 

 apes, because these seem nearest man. 



3. Argument from teeth that man a separate off- 

 shoot from lemurs. 



4. Theory of Saltatory Evolution of man (analogy 

 to Ancon sheep). Absence of facts for or against. 



5. Theory of extra-natural origin of human mind 

 (Wallace). Objections : Unnecessary reference to un- 

 known causes. Not line of least logical resistance. 

 Lack of recognition of epoch-making forces. Analogies 

 from human history. 



6. Man a nomadic ape. His powers the result of 

 his cosmopolitan qualities. Narrowing effect of life in 

 tree-tops. 



7. Man an ape of prolonged infancy. 



Primitive man a creature of large energy and large 

 possibilities. Value of latent power as against used-up 

 possibilities. 



