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On Some Fossil Remains of Man
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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    Title: On Some Fossil Remains of Man

    Author: Thomas H. Huxley

    Release Date: January 6, 2009 [EBook #2933]

    Last Updated: January 22, 2013

    Language: English

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    ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN

    By Thomas H. Huxley


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    I HAVE endeavoured to show, in the preceding Essay, that the ANTHROPINI, or Man Family, form a very well defined group of the Primates, between which and the immediately following Family, the CATARHINI, there is, in the existing world, the same entire absence of any transitional form or connecting link, as between the CATARHINI and PLATYRHINI.

    It is a commonly received doctrine, however, that the structural intervals between the various existing modifications of organic beings may be diminished, or even obliterated, if we take into account the long and varied succession of animals and plants which have preceded those now living and which are known to us only by their fossilized remains. How far this doctrine is well based, how far, on the other hand, as

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