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The great Anthropoid Apes have found nothing better for shelter than the Squirrels’ method.
He was phylogenetically evolved in the course of the Tertiary Period from a series of the lower primates (directly from the anthropoid apes, but earlier from the cynocephali and lemures).
The distance between the lowest savage and the most civilized human being is greater, in this respect also, than that which separates the savage from the anthropoid ape.
Comparative anatomy showed that our whole complicated frame resembles that of the other mammals, and in particular differs only by slight stages of growth, and therefore in[320] the details of the organs, from that of the anthropoid apes.
From comparative embryology we learned that man develops from a simple ovum just like the anthropoid ape, in fact, that it is almost impossible to distinguish between the ape and the human embryo even at a late stage of development.
As theologians and metaphysicians are very much divided as to the period of this entrance of the soul, and know nothing about the structure of the embryo and its development, we will only recall the fact that the human fœtus cannot be distinguished from that of the anthropoid ape and other mammals even in the sixth week of its development.
All the various organs of our body resemble those of our nearest relatives, the anthropoid apes, in their structure and composition.
An impartial comparison of mental life in the anthropoid ape and the savage shows that the differences between the two are not more considerable than the differences in the structure of their brains.
Hence, if one accepts the dualistic theory of the soul formulated by Plato and Kant and accepted by so many modern psychologists, it is necessary to attribute an immortal soul to the anthropoid apes and the higher mammals (especially to domestic dogs) just as well as to savage or civilized man (cf.
(In tropical lands the anthropoid apes are in similar fashion regarded by the natives as degenerate branches of their own stem!) Although this Biblical degeneration theory is still taught in most of our schools, and even supported by a few mystic philosophers, it had lost all scientific countenance before the end of the nineteenth century.
The lowest and oldest savages come very close to the anthropoid apes from which they have descended, in bodily structure and habits.
Other scattered remnants of these ancient negroid dwarfs, which approach closely to the anthropoid apes, still live in various parts of the primitive forests of the Sunda Islands (Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes).
The value of the life of these lower savages is like that of the anthropoid apes, or very little higher.
Their only interests are food and reproduction, in the same simple form in which we find these among the anthropoid apes (cf.
We may point out first that the earliest men, like their ancestors, the anthropoid apes, lived in trees, and only gradually began to run on the ground.
When we do this impartially, we see at once that reproduction, as a purely physiological process having for its end the maintenance of the species, takes place in just the same way among uncultivated races as among the anthropoid apes.
"[3] The degree of approximation to human intelligence in anthropoid animals follows very closely the degree of approximation to human movements.
" "In South America there are, if my memory serves me-you will check the observation, Professor Summerlee-some thirty-six species of monkeys, but the anthropoid ape is unknown.
It is probable that there existed an anthropoid ape in South America, who in past ages found his way to this place, and that he developed into the creatures we have seen, some of which"-here he looked hard at me-"were of an appearance and shape which, if it had been accompanied by corresponding intelligence, would, I do not hesitate to say, have reflected credit upon any living race.
I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.
As man excels the higher anthropoids perhaps almost as much in hand power as in mind, and since the manual areas of the brain are wide near the psychic zones, and the cortical centers are thus directly developed, the hand is a potent instrument in opening the intellect as well as in training sense and will.
Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.
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