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(5^ feet) and weighs about 200 pounds. Its ordinary atti- 
tude is like that of the chimpanzee; there is a web between 
the first joints of all the fingers and tliree of the toes, and 
both hands and feet are broader, while the body is much 
more robust than in the other apes, being very broad across 
the shoulders. The span of the arms is to the height as 
three to two, or a little over eight feet. The skull is thick, 
and the strength and ferocity of the creature is evinced by 
the thick sup":i-orbital ridges and the high sagittal and 
lambdoidal crests on the top of the skull ; the face is wide 
and long, the nos(3 broad and flat, the lips and chin promi- 
nent. The gorilla walks like the chimpanzee, though it 
stoops less. It is very ferocious, bold, never running when 
approached or attacked by man. It lives on a range of 
mountains in the interior of Guinea, its habitat, so far as 
known, extending from a little north of the Gaboon Kiver 
to the Congo. 
Thus, to recapitulate, while the gibbons are most remote 
from man, the orangs approach him nearest in the number 
of the ribs, the form of the cerebral hemispheres, and other 
less obvious characters; the chimpanzee is nearest related 
to him in the form of the skull, the dentition, and the pro- 
portions of the arms, while the gorilla resembles him more 
in the proportions of the leg to the body, of the foot to the 
hand, in the size of the heel, the curvature of the spine, the 
form of the pelvis, and the absolute capacity of the skull 
(Huxley). Anatomists have differed and do differ as to 
whether the chimpanzee or the gorilla is nearest to man. 
Whether man [Homo sapiens Linn.), when considered 
simply as an animal, is the representative of a distinct sub- 
class, order, sub-order, or family, is not and may never be 
settled ; though the tendency among zoologists is to leave 
him among the Primates, where he was placed by Linnaeus. 
When we consider the slight. absolute anatomical diff^Tences 
separating man from the apes, and take into account the 
great variations in form between the different genera of 
apes, and still more in the monkeys, it seems best, throw- 
