...of kin ! Mr. Darwin says : ' ^Ye lenrn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world ; ' and lie adduces ' a small projection of the helix, or outward fold of the human ear, к a vestige...

...emphatically denies the existence of such a creature, tt is easy to imagine "a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of ihe Old World," but it is quite another thing to prove it, and in the entire absence of proof we cannot...

...last chapter on " The Descent of Man,") that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst...

...let us hear his system : ' We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the old world. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst...

...indeed for genus homo. " We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World."* A large fossil monkey having been discovered in Miocene strata, his conclusion is, that we are the...

...raise our conception of self to be told that "man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world " ; nor will our pride be encouraged by knowing that "this creature, if its whole structure had been...

...from some ape-like creature." " Man," he says, " is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world." (Vol. ii. p. 389.) " The early progenitors of man," he says again, "were no doubt well covered with...

...from some ape-like creature." " Man," he says, " is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world." (Vol. ii. p. 389.) " The early progenitors of man," he says again, " were no doubt well covered with...

...in the Zoological series. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst...

...as the gorilla ; " and " We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." " It is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere."...