Evidence As to Man's Place in Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley

By Thomas Henry Huxley

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The higher a part of the substance of the next Essays has already been released within the type of Oral Discourses, addressed to greatly assorted audiences, dur ing the previous 3 years.

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Battell's " lesser monster" being thus proved to be a veritable existence, of course a strong presumption arose that his fC greater monster," the ' Pongo/ would sooner or later be discovered. And, indeed, a modern traveller, Bowdich, had, in 1819, found strong evidence, among the natives, of the existence of a second great Ape, called the ' Ingena/ " five feet high, and four across the shoulders/' the builder of a rude house, on the outside of which it slept. In 1847, Dr. Savage had the good fortune to make another and most important addition to our knowledge of the man-like Apes; for, being unexpectedly detained at the Gaboon river, he saw in the house of the Rev.

Neck short, thick, and hairy; chest and shoulders very broad, said to be fully double the size of the Enche-ekos; arms very long, reaching some way below the knee—the fore-arm much the shortest; hands very large, the thumbs much larger than the fingers The gait is shuffling; the motion of the body, which is 49 never upright as in man, but bent forward, is somewhat rolling, or from side to side. The arms being longer than the Chimpanzee, it d oes **V not stoop as much in walking; like that animal, it makes progression by thrusting its arms forward, resting the hands on the ground, and then giving the body a half jumping half swinging motion FIG.

I pretended to write; he, seeing me busily occupied, took the soap, and moved away with it in his paw. When he had walked half the length of the cabin, I spoke quietly, without frightening him. The instant he found I saw him, he walked back again, and deposited the soap nearly in the same place from whence he had taken it. " The most elaborate account of the natural history of the extant, is that given in the " Verhandelingen OUANG-UTAN 32 over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche Bezittingen (1839-45)," by Dr, Salomon Muller and Dr.

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