. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . very satisfactorily shown that the designation of quadrumane,or four-handed, is incorrectly applied to the family of monkeys. Their feet are realfeet, although prehensile ones ; but the upper limbs are true hands, &c, p. 18 ; alsoLtell, Antiquity of Man, 8vo. 1863, p. 476 et seq.: whom I would refer to Cuvier, Lecons dAnatomie Comparee, 8vo. 1805, torn. i. p. 376, Des os du coude-pied. MAMMALIAN ORDERS. 293 The dentition of the genus Homo is reduced to thirty-two teethby the suppression of the outer incisor and the first two premolarsof t
. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . very satisfactorily shown that the designation of quadrumane,or four-handed, is incorrectly applied to the family of monkeys. Their feet are realfeet, although prehensile ones ; but the upper limbs are true hands, &c, p. 18 ; alsoLtell, Antiquity of Man, 8vo. 1863, p. 476 et seq.: whom I would refer to Cuvier, Lecons dAnatomie Comparee, 8vo. 1805, torn. i. p. 376, Des os du coude-pied. MAMMALIAN ORDERS. 293 The dentition of the genus Homo is reduced to thirty-two teethby the suppression of the outer incisor and the first two premolarsof the typical series on each side of both jaws, the dentalformula being:— . 2—2 1—1 2—2 3—3 _ qo 2. 2^2, C. p. cjzj2, m. ^ — OA. The teeth are of equal length, show no sexual distinctions, andthere is no break in the series ; they are subservient in Man notonly to alimentation, but to beauty and to speech, fig. 182. The human foot is broad, plantigrade, with the sole, not in-verted as in Quadrumana, but applied flat to the ground; the 182. Bimanous dentition (Homo). leg, fig. 183, 66, bears vertically on the foot; the heel, 68, is ex-panded beneath; the toes are short, but with the innermost, i,longer and much larger than the rest, forming a hallux or greattoe, which is placed on the same line with, and cannot be opposed to,the other toes : the pelvis, 62, 63, is short, broad, and wide, keep-ing well apart the thighs; and the neck of the femur is long, andforms an open angle with the shaft, 65, increasing the basis ofsupport for the trunk. The whole vertebral column, with itsslight alternate curves, and the well-poised, short, but capacioussubglobular skull, are in like harmony with the requirements of 294 ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. the erect position. The widely-separated shoulders, with broad188 scapulae and complete clavicles, 58, give a fa-vourable position to theupper limbs, now libera-ted from the service oflocomotion, with complexjoints for rotatory as wellas flexi
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