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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



carried out in Ecptiles and Birds, tlie other in Mammals. 

 The latter are esiaecially distinguished by the very charac- 

 teristic development of tlio first section, the fore-brain. In 



Fig. 230.— Brain of Rabbit: A, from the dorsal side; B, from tlie 

 ventral side ; \o, olfactory lobnles ; I., foro-brain ; h, hypophysis at the base 

 of the twixt-brain; III., mid-brain ; IV., hind-brain; V., af ter-br.ain ; 2, optic 

 nerve ; 3, motor nerve of the eye ; 5-8, fifth to eighth nerves of the brain. 

 In A, the upper surface of the right large hemisphere (I.) is removed, so 

 that the streaked bodies {corpora striata) can be seen in its side chamber 

 (ventricidus lateralis). (After Gegenbaur.) 



Mammals alone (Fig. 230) does this "great brain" develop 

 to such an extent, that it eventually covers all the other 

 parts of the brain from above. 



Tliere are also remarkable differences in the relative 

 positions of the brain-bladders. In the lower Skulled 

 Animals the five brain-bladders are at first situated one 

 behind the other in the same plane. If the brain is re- 

 garded from the side, a straight line may be drawn thnjugh 

 all the five bladders. But in the three higher vertebrate 

 classes, in the Amnion Animals (Amniota), a noticeable 

 curving of the rudimentary brain takes place, simultaneously 



