e so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as
being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the
significance of that all-pervading similitude of structure--every tooth,
every bone, strictly homologous--which makes the determination of the
difference between 'Homo' and 'Pithecus' the anatomist's difficulty."
Surely it is a little singular, that the 'anatomist,' who finds it
'difficult' to 'determine the difference' between 'Homo' and 'Pithecus',
should yet range them on anatomical grounds, in distinct sub-classes!]
[Footnotes 8: On the Affinities of the Brain of the Orang. 'Nat. Hist.
Review', April, 1861.]
[Footnotes 9: On the Brain of a young Chimpanzee. 'Ibid.', July, 1861.]
[Footnotes 10: On the Posterior lobes of the Cerebrum of the Quadrumana.
'Philosophical Transactions', 1862.]
[Footnotes 11: On the anatomical Relations of the Surfaces of the
Tentorium to the Cerebrum and Cerebellum in Man and the lower Mammals.
'Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh', March, 1862.]
[Footnotes 12: On the Brain of Ateles. 'Proceedings of Zoological
Society', 1861.]
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