. The Bible and science. en after birth, as development goes on, w^eget greater and greater differentiation. Not to men-tion such cases as that of the axolotl amongst thelower animals, we find that at a comparatively earlyperiod in embryonic life man becomes differentiatedas a vertebrate from the other animal sub-kino^doms ;later on he is differentiated as a mammal from theother classes of vertebrata, and later still as a man fromthe other orders of mammalia. But it is only after birth that the racial differencesof men appear. For the first few days of its lifethe negro infant has a reddish-br


. The Bible and science. en after birth, as development goes on, w^eget greater and greater differentiation. Not to men-tion such cases as that of the axolotl amongst thelower animals, we find that at a comparatively earlyperiod in embryonic life man becomes differentiatedas a vertebrate from the other animal sub-kino^doms ;later on he is differentiated as a mammal from theother classes of vertebrata, and later still as a man fromthe other orders of mammalia. But it is only after birth that the racial differencesof men appear. For the first few days of its lifethe negro infant has a reddish-brown skin, and thenthe pigment which gives the black colour characteristicof its race makes its appearance. Later on, individualcharacteristics appear, and distinguish the men of onecountry from another, and one individual from thus see that all living beings, however 316 EMBRYOS OF FOUR VERTEBRATES. Showing their close relationship at an early stage of development and gradualdivergence as development


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