. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. NERVOUS CENTRES. (HUMAN ANATOMY. THE ENCEPHALON.) 667 the orang otang more than the European brain does, except in the more symmetrical distribu- tion of the gyri and sulci. It is not even cer- tain that this is always the case. We cannot therefore coincide with the opinion of many naturalists, who say that the Negro has more resemblance to apes than Europeans in refe- rence to the brain and nervous system. It is true that many ugly and degenerate Negro tribes on the count show some similarity in their out- ward form and
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. NERVOUS CENTRES. (HUMAN ANATOMY. THE ENCEPHALON.) 667 the orang otang more than the European brain does, except in the more symmetrical distribu- tion of the gyri and sulci. It is not even cer- tain that this is always the case. We cannot therefore coincide with the opinion of many naturalists, who say that the Negro has more resemblance to apes than Europeans in refe- rence to the brain and nervous system. It is true that many ugly and degenerate Negro tribes on the count show some similarity in their out- ward form and inward structure to the ape; for instance, in the greater size of the bones of the face, the projecting alveoli and teeth, the pro- minent cheek-bones, the recession of the chin, the flat form of the nose-bones, the projecting and strong lower jaw, the position of the fora- men occipitale magnum, the relative greater length of the ossa humeri and the bones of the foramen, the flat foot, and in the length, breadth, shape, and position of the os calcis. * These points certainly distinguish many Negro tribes from the Europeans, but they are not common to all the Negroes of the interior of Africa, the greater number of which are well made, and have handsome ;* A series of researches so extensive and con- ducted with so much care, (although the actual comparison of the brains themselves is yet wanting,) cannot allow a doubt to arise as to the conclusion which ought properly to flow from them. It would appear from them that no very marked differences exist between the brains of any of the classes of mankind—that the same relative inferiority of women to men is universally met with—and that a very dimi- nutive state of brain may be, when not an ac- companiment of idiotcy, either a part of a frame originally very small in stature, or a degenerate condition consequent upon a life of the lowest barbarism, under every possible physical impe- diment to the developement
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