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of Soutli AfVica ; but tlie yellow Pygmy (to judge from those wliicli I Lave 

 seen) not only never lias this feature exaggerated, but, on tlie contrarv, 

 tends ratlier to a poor development of tlie liuttoeks, this adding cunsiderabl v 



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to his simian appearance; for, as the late I'rofes-^or ( )\ven pointed out, the 

 anthropoid apes are " bird-rumped," without the great ih_'velopmeut of the 

 gluteal muscles characteiistic of man, and caused liy his erect carriage of 

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