154 NOTE ON MAN’S PLACE IN NATURE. 
“Anatomically considered, man is an animal of the class 
Mammalia. In that class, notwithstanding the heroic efforts of 
some modern detractors from his dignity to place him with the 
monkeys in the order Primates, he undoubtedly belongs to a 
distinct order. I have elsewhere argued that if he were an extinct 
animal, the study of the bones of his hand or of his head would 
suffice to convince any competent paleontologist that he represents 
a distinct order, as far apart from the highest apes as they are 
from the carnivora. That he belongs to a distinct family no 
anatomist denies, and the same unanimity of course obtains as to 
his generic and specific distinctness. On the other hand, no 
zoological systematist now doubts that all the races of men are 
specifically identical. 
