The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogenyFrom the German of Ernst Haeckel . ^^^Jf,r,. -^$^^^ y fif ^ V* M 3. Uranp. ^t •^ ^ 4. rsegro. MAN-LIKE APES. l8l the Negroes, have the head long from back to front (doli-chocephalic). The Asiatic Man-like Apes are, on the con-trary, mostly of a brown, or yellowish brown colour, andhave the head short from back to front (brachycephalic),like their countrymen, the Malays and Mongols. Thelargest Asiatic Man-like Ape is the well-known Orang, orOrang-outang (Fig. 128), which is indigenous in the SundaI

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The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogenyFrom the German of Ernst Haeckel . ^^^Jf,r,. -^$^^^ y fif ^ V* M 3. Uranp. ^t •^ ^ 4. rsegro. MAN-LIKE APES. l8l the Negroes, have the head long from back to front (doli-chocephalic). The Asiatic Man-like Apes are, on the con-trary, mostly of a brown, or yellowish brown colour, andhave the head short from back to front (brachycephalic),like their countrymen, the Malays and Mongols. Thelargest Asiatic Man-like Ape is the well-known Orang, orOrang-outang (Fig. 128), which is indigenous in the SundaIslands (Borneo, Sumatra), and is brown in colour. Twospecies have recently been distinguished: the great Orang(Satyrus Orang; Fig. 205, Plate XIY. Fig. 8), and the smallOrang (Satyrus raorio). A genus of smaller Anthropoids(Fig. 204), the Gibbons (Hylobates), live on the main-landof Southern Asia and on the Sunda Islands; from four toeight different species of these have been of these living Anthropoids can be indicated as theApe absolutely most like Man. The Gorilla approachesnearest to Man in the structure of t

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