Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays (1890) (14593747289)

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Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Aryans

Publisher: New York, Hurst and company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

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minor, and the degreeof projection of the posterior lobe beyond the cerebel-lum. Finally, as all the world knows, the hair and skinof human beings may present the most extraordinarydiversities in colour and in texture. So far as our present knowledge goes, the majority ofthe structural varieties to which allusion is here made,are individual. The ape-like arrangement of certainmuscles which is occasionally met with* in the whiteraces of mankind, is not known to be more commonamong jSTegroes or Australians: nor because the brainof the Hottentot Venus was found to be smoother, tohave its convolutions more symmetrically disposed, andto be, so far, more ape-like than that of ordinary Euro-peans, are we justified in concluding a like condition ofthe brain to prevail universally among the lower racesof mankind, however probable that conclusion may be. * See an excellent Essay by Mr. Church on the Myology ofthe Orang, in the Natural History Review for 1861. ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. I59

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Fig. 27.—Side and front views of the round and orthog-nathous skull of a Calmuck after Von Baer. One-third tlienatural size. 160 MANS PLACE IN NATURE. We are, in fact, sadly wanting in information re-specting the disposition of the soft and destructibleorgans of every Race of Mankind but our own; andeven of the skeleton, our Museums are lamentably defi-cient in every part but the cranium. Skulls enoughthere are, and since the time when Blumenbach andCamper first called attention to the marked and singulardifferences which they exhibit, skull collecting and skullmeasuring has been a zealously pursued branch of Nat-ural History, and the results obtained have been ar-ranged and classified by various writers, among whomthe late active and able Retzius must always be the firstnamed. Human skulls have been found to differ from oneanother, not merely in their absolute size and in theabsolute capacity of the brain case, but in the proportionswhich the diameters of the latter bear to one ano

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