Copy 1, Volume 1
Lectures on comparative anatomy / Translated from the French ... by William Ross; under the inspection of James Macartney.
- Georges Cuvier
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on comparative anatomy / Translated from the French ... by William Ross; under the inspection of James Macartney. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![who can feparate them to a much greater dif. tance than the other animals. | * “The power of feparating the feet in man f des pends, rit, on the width of the pelvis, which is ‘proportionally greater than that of all the other animals, who, in other refpects, poflefs fome of _ the conditions requifite for a perpendicular pof. ture; as may be obferved in the Quadrumana and Sarcophaga: 2d, on the length and obliquity of the neck of the femur, which carries that bone more outward, and removes it farther from its articulation than in any other animal. | ‘The great fuperficiés of the human foot is a confequence of the tarfus, metatarfus, and all the toes refting on the ground. This does not take place fo Hee Pak in any other animal as man. The end of the os calcis is elevated even in monkies and bears, while in man, on the con- ‘trary, it forms a downward projection to fuftain the foot poftériorly. The genus didelphis alfo very much refembles man in the hind feet, but thefe _ animals want all the other requifites for ftanding. The quadrupeds which have the tarfus longer than that of man, have it at the fame time nar- rower, and touch thé ground with ‘the points of their toes only. : Man, likewife, furpaffes all quadrupeds i in the advantageous form of his foot, and its aptitude to place itfelf firmly on the ground. | It is flat inferiorly, and both its edges reft upon the earth. In other animals the foot is ANGLE], KK ‘* _ commonly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088536_0001_0541.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
