Man's Place in Nature: And Other Anthropological Essays
Man's Place in Nature: And Other Anthropological Essays
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We should all, at once, agree upon placing him among the mammalian vertebrates; and his lower jaw, his molars, and his brain, would leave no room for doubting the systematic position of the new genus among those mammals, whose young are nour- ished during gestation by means of a placenta, or what are called the "placental mammals/^ Further, the most superficial study would at once convince us that, among the orders of placental mammals, neither the Whales, nor the hoofed creatures, nor the Slot...hs and Ant-eaters, 96 MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. n nor the camivoTous Cats^ Dog8> and Bears, still less the Bodent Bats and Babbits, or the Insectiv- orous Moles and Hedgehogs, or the Bats, could claim onr Homo, as one of themselyes.
There would remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using the word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — ^is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another^ and hence must take his place in the same order with them?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We should all, at once, agree upon placing him among the mammalian vertebrates; and his lower jaw, his molars, and his brain, would leave no room for doubting the systematic position of the new genus among those mammals, whose young are nour- ished during gestation by means of a placenta, or what are called the "placental mammals/^ Further, the most superficial study would at once convince us that, among the orders of placental mammals, neither the Whales, nor the hoofed creatures, nor the Slot...hs and Ant-eaters, 96 MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. n nor the camivoTous Cats^ Dog8> and Bears, still less the Bodent Bats and Babbits, or the Insectiv- orous Moles and Hedgehogs, or the Bats, could claim onr Homo, as one of themselyes.
There would remain then but one order for comparison, that of the Apes (using the word in its broadest sense), and the question for discussion would narrow itself to this — ^is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another^ and hence must take his place in the same order with them?
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Huxley Thomas Henry to read onlineMoreLess
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