SUMMARY OF LINE OF DESCENT OF MAN. 6j 



To take now, in conclusion, a summary retrospect 

 of Haeckel's scheme of the Phylogenesis or line of 

 descent of Man : — 



Man as he now is was originally evolved from 

 hypothetical speechless Ape-men ; these ape-men, 

 again, were evolved from hypothetical Men-apes 

 without tails, like the Orang ; these men-apes, from 

 hypothetical Apes with tails, like the nosed apes ; 

 these tailed apes, from hypothetical Half apes, like 

 the lemur \ these half apes, from hypothetical 

 Marsupial animals, like the Kangaroo rat; these 

 marsupialia, from hypothetical Monotremata, like the 

 ornithorhynchus, but without the duck's bill ; these 

 monotremata, from hypothetical Lizard-like creatures 

 of which no living resemblance is known ; these 

 lizard-like creatures, from hypothetical water Newts 

 or Salamanders ; these salamanders, from hypothe- 

 tical Perenni-branchiate batrachians, like the protetis 

 or axolotl ; these perenni-branchiates, from hypothe- 

 tical fishes, like the Lepido-siren ; these double 

 breathing fishes, from hypothetical fishes of the 

 Shark tribe ; these proto-fishes, from hypothetical 

 Lampreys ; these cyclostomata, from hypothetical 

 Amphioxi or Lancelets, which lowest of vertebrate 

 animals again were evolved from a hypothetical 

 form of Ascidian mollusk or worm, low in the scale 

 of invertebrate animals ; these ascidian worms from 

 hypothetical soft or cavitary worms ; these from 

 hypothetical solid worms ; these from hypothetical 

 Gastrceada ; these from hypothetical Planceada ; these 



