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in the stem form is supposed to have had such a 

 formation and capacity as this Javanese fossil skull. 

 If the theory of the biologists be correct, the 

 gibbon, the orang, the chimpanzee, the gorilla, and 

 man can all regard this skull as the skull of a near 

 relation. 



But, after all, brain-cases are not so important 

 as brains, and perhaps in brains we may find a denial 

 of our ape ancestry. 



Alas ! our brains are also the brains of an ape. 

 The brains of the anthropoid apes exactly resemble 

 the brains of a man. They have the same fissures, 

 the same convolutions, the same lobes, and, so far 

 as can be determined, the same functional areas. 

 There is nothing in the brain of a Shakespeare 

 that cannot be found in the brain of a baboon. 

 Professor Huxley states : — 



" As to the convolutions, the brains of the apes 

 exhibit every stage of progress from the almost 

 smooth brain of the marmoset to the orang and 

 chimpanzee, which fall but little below man. And 

 it is most remarkable that as soon as all the 

 principal sulci (fissures) appear, the pattern accord- 

 ing to which they are arranged is identical with 

 that of the corresponding sulci of man .... So 

 far as cerebral structure goes, therefore, it is clear 

 that man differs less from the chimpanzee and 

 orang than these do even from the monkeys, and 



