THE ` 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
Vor. XXVII. April, 1893. a 316 
THE GENEALOGY OF MAN. 
By E. D; Cops. 
The ancestry of man is a question to be solved by paleon- 
tology. Within the last twenty years, important progress has 
been made in our knowledge of the phylogeny of the mam- 
malia, and some points have been gained which throw consid- 
erable light on the more immediate predecessors of man. 
These additions to knowledge have been made in the fields of 
both simian and human paleontology, and they have naturally 
received attention from archeologists as well as paleontologists. 
The question must be approached from the side of anatomy 
primarily, although aid from any other source is essential. 
Philology can, of course, give us no assistance, since the first 
man can have left no trace of his language. It is a fact that 
in some quarters, archeologists who are not anatomists, seem 
to underrate the value of anatomy in the premises, and are 
inclined to dispute the existence of men of very primitive or 
| simian physical characteristics. But archeology, apart from 
anatomy, is a poor guide in the field of human ancestry. 
oN othing is better known than that some races of men present 
a larger proportion of simian characteristics than others. Thus 
these approximations are fewest in the Indo-European race, 
and are rather more evident in the Mongolian. In the Poly- 
nesian, Negro, and Bushmen, they are most numerous, and in 
about equal b t differently distributed proporti Confining 
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