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and hence also our own race, are the direct descendants of 

 Semi-apes, is to be found in the comparative anatomy and 

 the ontogeny of Placental animals. 



NtNETEBNTH Stage : Tailed Apes (Menooeroa). 



Of the two classes of Genuine Apes which developed out 

 of the Semi-apes, it is only the narrow-nosed, or Catarrhini, 

 which are closely related by blood to Man. Our older 

 ancestors from this group probably resembled the still 

 living Nose-apes and Holy-apes (Semnopithecus), which 

 possess jaws and narrow noses like Man, but have a long 

 tail, and their bodies densely covered with hair (p. 271). 

 The Tailed Apes with narrow noses (Catarrhini Menocerci) 

 originated out of Semi-apes by the transformation of the 

 jaw, and by the claws on their toes becoming changed into 

 naUs; this probably took place as early as the older Tertiary 

 period. The certain proof of our derivation from Tailed 

 Catarrhini is to be found in the comparative anatomy and 

 the ontogeny of Apes and of Man. 



Twentieth Stage : Man-like Apes (Anthropoides). 



Of all still living Apes the large tail-less, narrow-nosed 

 Apes, namely, the Orang and Gibbon in Asia, the Gorilla 

 and Chimpanzee in Africa, are most nearly akin to Man. 

 It is probable that these Man-like Apes, or Anthropoides, 

 originated during the Mid-tertiary period, namely, in the 

 Miocene period. They developed out of the Tailed Catar- 

 rhiai of the preceding stage — with which they essentially 

 agree — by the loss of the tail, the partial loss of the hairy 



