The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus


An illustration by Bontius (1658) of early impressions of the Orangutan. The picture was published in Thomas Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1883), Humbolt Library Popular Science Literature No. 4.


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