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abductor absent adult Africa aged male gorilla Anatomie animal anthropoids appears arms baboon Berlin Aquarium Bischoff bony brain canine teeth cervical vertebræ characteristic chim chimpanzee colour crest Darwin digitorum display extensor external feet female gorilla femur fingers fissure flexor longus foot forest frontal frontal bone furrow gibbon hair hand head human humerus Hylobates illustration inner Koppenfels latter Levator levator labii superioris ligament Loango lobes lower jaw lumbar vertebræ Mafuca male chimpanzee mammals microcephalic muscle neck negro nose observed occipital occipital bone opponens orang orang-utan orbits panzee parietal bones phalanges pollicis portion posterior Professor prognathous prominent races region remarkable resemblance ridges round sacral savage short siamang side skeleton skin skull slender sometimes species of apes specimen squamous strongly developed structure supra-orbital arches temporal bone tendon thick thumb tibia tion toes transverse tree Troglodytes vertebral column Virchow Wallace wide wrinkled young male Zoological
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Page 308 - Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
Page 303 - He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.