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ence of this sub-group, and no doubt it is a broken 
; thus the orang, as Mr. St. G. Mivart' remarks , 12 
‘ is one of the most peculiar and aberrant forms to be 
“ iound in the Order.” The remaining, non-anthropo- 
^orphous, Old World monkeys, are again divided by 
some naturalists into two or three smaller sub-groups ; 
the genus Semnopithecus, with its peculiar sacculated 
stomach, being the type of one such sub-group. But 
appears from M. Gaudry’s wonderful discoveries in 
Attica, that during the Miocene period a form existed 
there, which connected Semnopithecus and Macacus; 
a, id this probably illustrates the manner in which the 
°ther and higher groups were once blended together. 
If the anthropomorphous apes be admitted to form 
a natural sub-group, then as man agrees with them, 
Hot only in all those characters which he possesses in 
common with the whole Catarhine group, but in other 
Peculiar characters, such as the absence of a tail and 
°f callosities and in general appearance, we may infer 
Ihat some ancient member of the anthropomorphous 
sub-group gave birth to man. It is not probable 
*hut a member of one of the other lower sub-groups 
should, through the law of analogous variation, have 
§ lv en rise to a man-like creature, resembling the higher 
Hothropomorphous apes in so many respects. No 
houbt man, in comparison with most of his allies, has 
Undergone an extraordinary amount of modification, 
chiefly in consequence of his greatly developed brain 
ail( t erect position ; nevertheless we should bear in 
111 hid that be “ is but one of several exceptional forms 
“ of Primates .” 13 
livery naturalist, who believes iu the principle of 
12 ‘ Transact. Zoolog. Soc.’ vol, vi. 1867, p. 214. 
13 Mr. St. G. Mivart, ‘ Transact. Phil. Soc.’ 1867, p. 410. 
