Identifier: mansplaceinnatur01huxl (find matches)
Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Europeans
Publisher: New York, J. A. Hill and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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elligence and an Apes, therefore, there must be an equallyimmense difference between their brains, appears to me to be aboutas well based as the reasoning by which one should endeavor to provethat, because there is a great gulf between a watch that keeps accu-rate time and another that will not go at all, there is therefore a greatstructural hiatus between the two watches. A hair in the balance-wheel, a little rust on a pinion, a bend in a tooth of the escapement, asomething so slight that only the practised eye of the watchmaker candiscover it, may be the source of all the difference. And believing, as I do, with Cuvier, that the possession of articulatespeech is the grand distinctive character of man (whether it be abso-lutely peculiar to him or not), I find it very easy to comprehend, thatsome equally inconspicuous structural difference may have been tlieprimary cause of the immeasurable and practically infinite divergence ofthe Human from the Simian Stirps. 82 MANS PLACE IN NATURE
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^/—C Chimpanzee, Fig. 22.—Drawing of the cerebral hemispheres of a Man, and of arbimpnnz^e of the same length, in order to show the relative propor-tions of Ihe Darts: the former taken from a specimen, which Mr. Flower, RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS 83 Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, was goodenough to dissect for me; the latter, from the photograph of a similarlydissected Chimpanzees brain, given in Mr. Marshalls pa^er above re-ferred to. a, posterior lobe; &, lateral ventricle; c, posterior cornu; x,the hippocampus minor. misrepresented and their phraseology garbled, until they seemto say that the structural differences between man and even thehighest apes are small and insignificant. Let me take this oppor-tunity then of distinctly asserting, on the contrary, that they aregreat and significant; that every bone of a Gorilla bears marksby which it might be distinguished from the corresponding boneof a Man; and that, in the present creation,

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