An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . nner it often shows a position of thelegs which are strikingly apelike.^ There is much more evidence along anatomical andembryological lines, but the character of this evidencehas been sufficiently illustrated. The whole structureof man shows that he has arisen by differentiation fromlower vertebrates. There seems to be no scientific rea-son for separating man from the rest of the animalkingdom as regards the processes of evolution.^^ Wedo not yet know all the stages through which the humanbody passed in the process of
An introduction to the study of social evolution; the prehistoric period . nner it often shows a position of thelegs which are strikingly apelike.^ There is much more evidence along anatomical andembryological lines, but the character of this evidencehas been sufficiently illustrated. The whole structureof man shows that he has arisen by differentiation fromlower vertebrates. There seems to be no scientific rea-son for separating man from the rest of the animalkingdom as regards the processes of evolution.^^ Wedo not yet know all the stages through which the humanbody passed in the process of its evolution, and we donot know many of the details by which his mental facul-ties have arisen from the lower condition of mind seenin other vertebrates; but the evidence which we do pos-sess presents no serious reason for believing that themethod of their evolution has been different in anyfundamental regard from the methods by which theminds and bodies of other animals have been developed.^ » See fi^^uii \2. ii :\[itcalf, op. cit., p. 170. luSte llfrure 13. t^ ur nr nr nc From Iloiiiuned, Darvvia and after Darwin. J FICUEE 11. A Series of Embryos ;it Three (ui]i)iai;il)lc :iiiil liiif;ressive .Stayea ufDivelijiinieiit, rei)reseiitiii;i: luur Divisions of tlic Cl:iss-Maiiiiiiali;i. THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN 49 In common with other animals men often fail in thestruggle for existence, become submerged and selection operates among mankind to extermin-ate the unfit and to preserve the better adapted individ-uals who transmit to their children the characteristics
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