Lectures on man : his place in creation, and in the history of the earth / by Carl Vogt ; edited by James Hunt.
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- 1864
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Credit: Lectures on man : his place in creation, and in the history of the earth / by Carl Vogt ; edited by James Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of only one intermediate form between man and ape is unjusti- fiable, inasmuch as we know in our present creation three different sources for such intermediate forms. Schroder van der Kolk and Vrolik agree with us in this respect, although they are opposed to Darwin^s theory. We know, they say, no species of apes which forms a direct transition to man. If man is to be derived from the ape, we must search for his head amongst the small monkeys which group themselves around the Cebus and the Ouistitis; for his hand we must go to the chimpanzee; for his skeleton, to the Siamang; for his brain, to the orang, [and I add, for his foot, to the gorilla]. Putting aside the difference in the teeth, it is manifest that the general aspect of the skull of a Cebus, of a Ouistiti, or some other cognate mon- keys, resembles, though in miniature, more the skull of man than the skull of an adult gorilla, chimpanzee, or orang. The carpus of the chimpanzee, [and.of the gorilla], has the same number of bones as that of man, whilst that of the orang is distinguished by those singular intermediary bones found in all other monkeys. The skeleton of the Siamang resembles by its sternum, the shape of the thorax, the ribs, and the pelvis, much more that of man, than that of the gorilla, chimpanzee, and the orang; and our researches have also shown that the brain of the orang stands nearer to that of man than the brain of the chim- panzee. It would thus be requisite to collect the human cha- racters from five different apes, from one of America, from two of Africa, from one of Borneo, and from one of Sumatra; the primitive relations of man are accordingly so scattered, that we -can hardly believe in one common stock.- It is just this plurality of characters which confirms us in our view. If the Macaci in the Senegal, the baboons on the Gambia, and the gibbons in Borneo could become developed into anthropoid apes, we cannot see why the American apes should not be capable of a similar development! If in dif- ferent regions of the globe anthropoid apes may issue from different stocks, we cannot see why these different stocks should be denied the further development into the human type, and that only one stock should possess this privilege; m](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21923267_0492.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
