Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays (1904) (14763314851)

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

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Europeans

Publisher: New York, J. A. Hill and company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

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e structuresof all in the human brain are exactly those on which the unwiseattempt has been made to base the distinctive characters of hu-manity, viz. the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle, thehippocampus minor, and the degree of projection of the posteriorlobe beyond the cerebellum. Finally, as all the world knows, thehair and skin of human beings may present the most extraordi-nary diversities in colour and in texture. So far as our present knowledge goes, the majority of the struc-tural varieties to which allusion is here made, are individual. Theape-like arrangement of certain muscles which is occasionallymet with* in the white races of mankind, is not known to bemore common among Negroes or Australians: nor because thebrain of the Hottentot Venus was found to be smoother, to haveits convolutions more symmetrically disposed, and to be, so far, * See an excellent Essay by Mr. Church on the Myology of the Orang,in the Natural History Review for 1861. FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 109

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Fig. 27.—Side and front views of the round and orthognathous skull ofa Calmuck after Van Baer. One-third the natural size. more ape-like than that of ordinary Europeans, are we justifiedin concluding a like condition of the brain to prevail universallyamong the lower races of mankind;, however probable that con-clusion may be. 110 MANS PLACE IN NATURE We are, in fact, sadly wanting in information respecting thedisposition of the soft and destructible organs of every Race ofMankind but our own; and even of the skeleton, our Museums arelamentably deficient in every part but the cranium. Skullsenough there are, and since the time when Blumenbach andCamper first called attention to the marked and singular differ-ences which they exhibit, skull collecting and skull measuring hasbeen a zealously pursued branch of iSTatural History, and theresults obtained have been arranged and classified by various writ-ers, among whom the late active and able Betzius must always bethe first named. Human

анатомические пластины и рисунки человеческого черепа калмыки Место человека в природе и другие антропологические очерки 1904 г. книжные иллюстрации палеонтология окаменелости путешествие и описание этнология изображения из интернет-архива библиотека Конгресса

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