The countries of the anthropomorphous apes are the tropical regions of Africa, and the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, lands which may be said to be quite unknown in reference to their Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalia.
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class.
The acknowledgment of man's structural similarity with the anthropomorphous species nearest approaching him, viz.
The relations between man and ape are most readily stated in comparison with the gorilla, as on the whole the most anthropomorphous ape.
The manner of roasting these anthropomorphous animals contributes to render their appearance extremely disagreeable in the eyes of civilized man.
We were everywhere blamed, in the most cultivated class of society, for being the only persons to doubt the existence of the greatanthropomorphous monkey of America.
At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked (18.
But it is useless to speculate on this subject; for two or three anthropomorphous apes, one the Dryopithecus (17.
It is not probable that, through the law of analogous variation, a member of one of the other lower sub-groups should have given rise to a man-like creature, resembling the higher anthropomorphous apes in so many respects.
Here man may have remained for a period, peculiar to a single island, just as some of the large anthropomorphous species are now limited to one island within the tropics.
The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.
It is not probable that a member of one of the other lower sub-groups should, through the law of analogous variation, have given rise to a man-like creature, resembling the higher anthropomorphous apes in so many respects.
This remark is made with respect to Cynocephalus and theanthropomorphous apes by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F.
The reduction in caliber of the terminal part, foreshadowing by the pointed and narrow extremity of the pouch the appearance of the appendix in the anthropomorphous group.
This is all the more likely with a habit like weeping, which must have been acquired since the period when man branched off from the common progenitor of the genus Homo and of the non-weeping anthropomorphous apes.
Therefore weeping probably came on rather late in the line of our descent; and this conclusion agrees with the fact that our nearest allies, the anthropomorphous apes, do not weep.
Whether the adult anthropomorphous apes, in the males of whom the canines are much larger than in the females, uncover them when prepared to fight, is not known.
The anthropomorphous ape existing now will have disappeared; but it will be a well-known and recorded animal of the past.
It may be, and probably will be, that theanthropomorphous apes will be exterminated at the same time.
Did, then, these manifestations of something like mental power begin in the anthropomorphous ape from whom we are supposed to be descended, or who is supposed to be of kin to us?
His immediate progenitors were "probably" a group of monkeys called by naturalists the Anthropomorphous Apes, being a group without tails or callosities, and in other respects resembling man.
Mr. Darwin affirms that this is indeed the case, and says that the correspondence in minute structure is so close, especially in the case of man and the anthropomorphous apes, that it is impossible to exaggerate it.
We cannot exactly agree with Darwin, therefore, when he calls the “anthropomorphous apes our nearest allies and our early progenitors” (p.
We may readily believe, from our affinity to the anthropomorphous apes, that our male semi-human progenitors possessed great canine teeth” (p.
It is only in man and the anthropomorphousapes that the articulation of the shoulder is so arranged as to allow of rotatory movements.
The bony portion of the hand of man and of that of certainanthropomorphous apes present marked similarities.
Man and the anthropomorphous apes are the final terms of two series, which commence to diverge at the very latest as soon as the lowest of the apes appear upon the earth.
It is asked if this is not a preliminary step towards the bony crests which rise in this region in some of the anthropomorphous apes?
Pruner-Bey, the most striking general characteristics in man and in the anthropomorphous apes.
We see it branching out into secondary series all leading up toanthropomorphous apes, which are not members of one and the same family, but corresponding superior terms of three distinct families (Gratiolet).
The brains of microcephalous individuals, although often less voluminous and less convoluted than those of the anthropomorphous apes, do not on this account become like the latter.
Will it be said that when the degree of organisation manifested in the anthropomorphous apes had been once arrived at, the organism underwent a new impulse and became adapted for walking?
The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?
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