Evidence as to Man's Place in NatureD. Appleton, 1863 - 184 pages |
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... question to be settled by philologers and travel- lers ; and I should hardly have dwelt so long upon it except for the curious part played by this word 6 Pongo ' in the later his- tory of the man - like Apes . The generation which ...
... question to be settled by philologers and travel- lers ; and I should hardly have dwelt so long upon it except for the curious part played by this word 6 Pongo ' in the later his- tory of the man - like Apes . The generation which ...
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... - Rus- sischen Erdumsegelung , " p . 115 , 1813 . Speaking broadly and without prejudice to the question , whether there be more than one species of Orang . certainly not the Pongo of Battell , seeing that the 30 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF.
... - Rus- sischen Erdumsegelung , " p . 115 , 1813 . Speaking broadly and without prejudice to the question , whether there be more than one species of Orang . certainly not the Pongo of Battell , seeing that the 30 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF.
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... question . The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is derived , and whose territory forms its habitat , is the Mpongwe , occupying both banks of the River Gaboon , from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward . ... If the ...
... question . The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is derived , and whose territory forms its habitat , is the Mpongwe , occupying both banks of the River Gaboon , from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward . ... If the ...
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... question of questions for mankind - the problem which underlies all others , and is more deeply interesting . than any other - is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the uni- verse of ...
... question of questions for mankind - the problem which underlies all others , and is more deeply interesting . than any other - is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the uni- verse of ...
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... question , invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder , if not by him- self , to be complete and final , remains in high authority and esteem , it may be for one century , or it may be for twenty : but , as invariably , Time ...
... question , invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder , if not by him- self , to be complete and final , remains in high authority and esteem , it may be for one century , or it may be for twenty : but , as invariably , Time ...
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adult allantois anatomical anatomist angle animal arms Baboon basicranial axis Battell body brain Buffon Busk called canines Cape Negro cavern cerebellum cerebral cerebral hemispheres cerebrum characters Chimpanzee cranium cubic centimetres cubic inches Cuvier differences distinct dorsal doubt Engis exhibits existence facial feet female figure foot four frontal sinuses germinal vesicle Gibbons Gorilla ground habits hand highest Ape hippocampus hippocampus minor human skull Jocko Lemur length less limbs lower apes lumbar vertebræ male mammals man-like Apes Mandrill molars Monkey muscles Natural History Neanderthal Neanderthal skull Negro observed occipital bone occipital foramen Orang Orang-Utan organization orthognathous panzee parietal peronæus longus Pongo possess posterior cornu posterior lobe present Professor Owen prognathous proportion protuberance Pygmie race remarkable resemble respecting ridges Savage side skeleton species spinal column structure supraciliary surface suture teeth tentorium termed thumb tion toes trees Tulpius Tyson yelk young
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Page 129 - I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life...
Page 131 - Nay more, thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence Man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler Future.
Page 71 - THE question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Page 132 - Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge, that Man is, in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals...
Page 123 - Darwin's hypothesis, maintain, that whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Page 115 - And it is a remarkable circumstance, that though so far as our present knowledge extends, there is one true structural break in the series of forms of Simian brains, this hiatus does not lie between Man and the man-like apes, but between the lower and the lowest Simians; or, in other words, between the old and new world apes and monkeys, and the Lemurs. Every Lemur which has yet been examined, in fact, has its cerebellum partially visible from above, and its posterior lobe, with the contained posterior...
Page 130 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Page 83 - So that it is only quite in the later stages of development that the young human being presents marked differences from the young ape, while the latter departs as much from the dog in its development as the man does. Startling as this last assertion may appear to be, it is demonstrably true...
Page 132 - ... the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby in the secular period of his existence he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals ; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.
Page 63 - ... agree that but one adult male is seen in a band ; when the young male grows up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest, by killing and driving out the others, establishes himself as the head of the community.