176 Darwin, and after Darwin. 
occur in the sundry branches of the mammalian type 
now living. As we shall presently see, the modi- 
fications which the limbs have undergone in these 
‘After Le Conte.) 
; 5, bones of the wrist; 6, bones 
and Horse. 
Dog, Hog, Sheep, 
lade; c, coracoid; a, 6, bones of fore-arm 
; 7, bones of the fingers. 
_—Anterior limb of Man, 
-, shoulder-b 
of the hand 
Fic. 76 
Se, 
sundry branches chiefly consist in the suppression of 
some parts and the exaggerated development of others. 
But, by comparing all mammalian limbs together, it is 
easy to obtain a generalized type of mammalian limb, 
