An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . w. LEMUR EUBER. The Red Lemur and its Skull. LEMURS AND APES. 325 ?vvith its soft black eye, must go. He cannot in anyway get directly into our ancestral tree. Well, then, the lemurs, according to Darwin, aredescended from those remote placental forms whichwere evolved from the remote implacental forms. It looks very hazy, and ugly thoughts about skullsand limbs, and habits and modes of existence, crop upin the mind; but, as we are following Darwins belief,not our own, we must take things as we find them, andtherefore we now arrive at
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . w. LEMUR EUBER. The Red Lemur and its Skull. LEMURS AND APES. 325 ?vvith its soft black eye, must go. He cannot in anyway get directly into our ancestral tree. Well, then, the lemurs, according to Darwin, aredescended from those remote placental forms whichwere evolved from the remote implacental forms. It looks very hazy, and ugly thoughts about skullsand limbs, and habits and modes of existence, crop upin the mind; but, as we are following Darwins belief,not our own, we must take things as we find them, andtherefore we now arrive at mans ^remote ancestor,who must come in here if at all. I allude to thecreature with cocked ears and tail, prehensile feet,both sexes covered with hair and having beards, andthe male with huge canine teeth. From such a Dar-winian creation were descended the lowest of thequadrumana, the lemurs (Plate I. fig. 12). Thence we are told the Simiadse were graduallyevolved (Plate II. fig. 13), and the Simiad^ dividedinto two groups, the platyrhine or new world, an
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