128 The Kindred of Man. [Fe 
the flexor longus hallucis belies its name by giving no tendonto | 
the great toe. os 
In the form of the larynx, one of the gibbons comes quite neat | 
man, but in other respects is less like him than the other apes. P 
The chimpanzee and gorilla, like man, have eight bones in the 
wrist and ankle, while the orang has one additional in each; the 
human number of twelve ribs is found only in the orang, but! 
more than offset this, it has in the foot a special muscle, tl 
The orang and gorilla have the same number of spinal v i 
bra as man, but in the curves of the backbone which they forn 
and which are vitally important to his habitual attitude, 
baboons bear a closer resemblance. So, too, with the positio 
the occipital foramen in the base of 
