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another less, and even we Europeans cannot claim to be 

 entirely free from evidences of this relationship." * 



I must here also point out, what in fact is self-evident, 

 that not one of all the still living Apes, and consequently 

 not one of the so-caUed Man-like Apes, can be the pro- 

 genitor of the Human Race. This opinion, in fact, has 

 never been maintained by thoughtful adherents of the 

 Theory of Descent, but it has been assigned to them by their 

 thoughtless opponents. The Ape-like progenitors of the 

 Human Race are long since extinct. We may possibly still 

 find their fossil bones in the tertiary rocks of southern Asia 

 or Africa. In any case they will, in the zoological system, 

 have to be classed in the group of tail-less Narroiv-nosed 

 Apes (Catarrhini Lipocerci, or Anthropoides. 



The genealogical hypotheses, to which we have thus far 

 been led by the application of the Theory of Descent to 

 Man, present themselves to every clearly and logically rea- 

 soning person as the direct results from the facts of com- 

 parative anatomy, ontogeny, and palaeontology. Of course 

 our phylogeny can indicate only in a very general way the 

 outlines of the human pedigree. Phylogeny is the more in 

 danger of becoming erroneous the more rigorously it is 

 applied in detail to special animal forms known to us. 

 However, we can, even now, with approximate certainty 

 distinguish at least the following twenty-two stages of the 

 ancestors of Man. Fourteen of these stages belong to the 

 Vertebrata, and eight to the Invertebrate ancestors of Man 

 (Prochordata.) 



* Weisbach : " Noyara-Eeise," Antkropliolog. Theil. 



