Evidence as to Man's Place in NatureD. Appleton & Company, 1873 - 184 頁 |
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adult allantois anatomical anatomist angle animal arms Baboon basicranial axis Battell body bones brain Buffon Busk called canines Cape Negro cavern cerebellum cerebral cerebral hemispheres cerebrum characters Chimpanzee cranium cubic centimetres cubic inches Cuvier differences distinct dorsal Engis exhibits existence facial feet female figure foot fossil four frontal sinuses germinal vesicle Gibbons Gorilla ground habits hand hippocampus hippocampus minor human skull Jocko Lemur length less limbs lower apes lumbar lumbar vertebræ male mammals man-like Apes Mandrill molars Monkey muscles Natural History Neanderthal Negro observed occipital bone occipital foramen Orang Orang-Utan organization orthognathous panzee parietal Plate Pongo possess posterior cornu posterior lobe present Professor Owen prognathous proportion protuberance Pygmie race remarkable resemble respecting ridges Salomon Müller Savage side skeleton species spinal column structure supraciliary surface suture teeth tentorium termed thumb tion toes trees Tulpius vertebræ yelk young
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第 71 頁 - THE question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
第 131 頁 - Nay more, thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence Man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler Future.
第 151 頁 - But, as the importance of the discovery was not at the time perceived, the labourers were very careless in the collecting, and secured chiefly only the larger bones ; and to this circumstance it may be attributed that fragments merely of the probably perfect skeleton came into my possession.
第 123 頁 - Darwin's hypothesis, maintain, that whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
第 181 頁 - a fair average skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.