Man and apes : an exposition of structural resemblances and differences bearing upon questions of affinity and origin / by St. George Mivart.

  • St. George Jackson Mivart
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Man and apes : an exposition of structural resemblances and differences bearing upon questions of affinity and origin / by St. George Mivart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in tlie totality of his nature, because that is a matter not to he settled without the interven- tion of the philosopher and the psychologist. The anatomist—as such_, however wide and detailed may be his acquaintance with different animals—^is necessarily incompetent to offer a valid opinion on the subject. The matters to be here investigated concern physical science only—facts of zoology and of anatomy, together with the inferences which may be drawn from them respecting man’s bodily structure. The questions, then, which are to occupy us, are the following: 1. What is the real zoological position and nature of the Gorilla? 2. What are the degrees of resemblance to man which the various kinds of apes exhibit ? 3. What is the bearing of these facts upon the doctrine of evolution (or deriva- tion), as applied to man’s body, including the question as to the direction which the line of genetic afSnity seems to take in passing from man through the apes to lower animals ? Whatever existing species is most nearly
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