The Mammals and Man 



(Fig. 131). These represent a further step towards the final climax 

 of the primate group. 



A special class has to be made for the four genera of Old- 

 World apes illustrated in Figs. 132 to 136. These are the Gorilla 

 and Chimpanzee, which are African in distribution, and the 



Fig. 135. — The Gorilla. 



Gibbon and Orang, which are Asiatic. They are termed the 

 Anthropoid or man-like apes, and there can be no question that 

 they are the nearest living relatives of the human species. This 

 is seen in their general build, which is man-like in a high degree ; 

 by many similarities, even in the minutest details, in their skeleton 

 and muscular system ; and by the fact that their brain, while 

 still greatlv inferior to that of man, is by as much superior to that 



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