It was not until after the year 1836 that the existence of any fossil quadrumana was brought to light.
The great family of Quadrumana is divided in various ways by different Naturalists; but the easiest classification to keep in mind is the grouping of five distinct Orders, each made up of small families.
What would the naturalist know of the apes and orangs now contemporary with man, if our investigations were restricted to such northern latitudes as those where alone the geologist has hitherto found all the fossil quadrumana of Europe?
Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.
Defn: A Linnæan genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera.
As to the health of the members of the colony, bipeds or bimana, quadrumana or quadrupeds, it left nothing to be desired.
The rest, throwing themselves out, were dashed to pieces in their fall, and in a few minutes, so far as they knew, there was not a living quadrumana in Granite House.
It is in equatorial Africa that the most powerful of all the Quadrumana live, far exceeding the Oran Outang, and even the Pongo of Borneo.
The genus Chimpanzee (Pithecus troglodytes) is by some later naturalists preferred to that foremost place among the Quadrumanain which Cuvier had installed the orang-outang.
We have seen that the aye-aye may be considered as connecting the Quadrumana with the Bradypes, on the one hand, and the squirrels on the other.
And I may add, throw a flood of light on the question of the "Missing Link," and the development of man and the quadrumana from a common ancestral type.
The utmost we can suppose is that, as in the case of the horse, some ancestral form from which the quadrumana and man may possibly have been developed may be found.
But the gradations which would show the transformation from the implacental Marsupials to the placental Quadrumana are wanting.
The Quadrumanaand all the higher (or Placental) Mammals.
As small unimportant points of resemblance between man and the Quadrumana are not commonly noticed in systematic works, and as, when numerous, they clearly reveal our relationship, I will specify a few such points.
In some species of Quadrumana there is a great difference between the adult sexes, in the power of their voices and in the development of the vocal organs; and man appears to have inherited this difference from his early progenitors.
The naked parts, however, of certain Quadrumana must be excepted; for such parts, often oddly situated, are brilliantly coloured in some species.
The Quadrumana and all the higher mammals are probably derived from an ancient marsupial animal, and this through a long line of diversified forms, from some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like animal.
In regard to the general hairiness of the body, the women in all races are less hairy than the men; and in some few Quadrumana the under side of the body of the female is less hairy than that of the male.
In those Quadrumana in which the male has a larger beard than that of the female, it is fully developed only at maturity, just as with mankind; and it is possible that only the later stages of development have been retained by man.
Other similar facts could be given; but even if we had no evidence on this head, we might feel almost sure, from the analogy of the higher Quadrumana (23.
So little is known about the use of the voice by the Quadrumana during the season of love, that we have no means of judging whether the habit of singing was first acquired by our male or female ancestors.
According to that theory, we should expect man to have originated where the highest species of the quadrumana are to be found.
It is as follows:- Typical Quadrumana Pre-eminently organized for grasping.
They have hitherto been classed together in the same order with Apes which Blumenbach called Quadrumana (four-handed).
The Quadrumana or monkey tribe form one of the most characteristic features of this region.
Now it is a curious fact, that the existence of such a land has been already thought necessary, to account for the distribution of the curious Quadrumana forming the family of the Lemurs.
So little is known about the use of the voice by the Quadrumana during the season of love, that we have hardly any means of judging whether the habit of singing was first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind.
The naked parts, however, of certain Quadrumana must be excepted; for such parts, often oddly situated, are coloured in some species in the most brilliant manner.
In some species ofQuadrumana there is a great difference between the adult sexes, in the power of the voice and in the development of the vocal organs; and man appears to have inherited this difference from his early progenitors.
In regard to the general hairyness of the body, the women in all races are less hairy than the men, and in some few Quadrumana the under side of the body of the female is less hairy than that of the male.
He adduces, as another instance, the malar bone, which, in some of the Quadrumana and other mammals, normally consists of two portions.
Many muscles are occasionally developed in man, which are proper to the Quadrumanaor other mammals.
Germany and Italy," said he, "are famous for them, and in some of the German and Italian cities there are monkey theaters where performances are given by quadrumana throughout the entire year.
The youths took the hint and no further questions were asked that evening aboutquadrumana and their strange ways.
Humerus, perforations of, in quadrumana and man, 94, 95.
First, the supra condyloid foramen is a normal feature in some of the lower Quadrumana (Fig.
But most of the Quadrumana (including the anthropoids) are still able to do so.
This is likewise the case in anthropoid apes; but in not a few other Quadrumana (e.
Perforation of the humerus (supra-condyloid foramen) in three species of Quadrumana where it normally occurs, and in Man, where it does not normally occur 95 26.
Perforation of the humerus (supra-condyloid foramen) in three species of Quadrumana where it normally occurs, and in Man, where it does not normally occur.
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