The Descent of Man

World division; losing at the same time all its
own distinctive characters. There can, consequently,
hardly be a doubt that man is an offshoot
from the Old World Simian stem; and
that under a genealogical point of view he must
be classed with the Catarrhine division. (12.
This is nearly the same classification as that
provisionally adopted by Mr. St. George Mivart,
('Transactions, Philosophical Society,"
1867, p. 300), who, after separating the Lemuridae,
divides the remainder of the Primates into
the Hominidae, the Simiadae which answer to
the Catarrhines, the Cebidae, and the Hapalidae,—these
two latter groups answering to the
Platyrrhines. Mr. Mivart still abides by the same
view; see 'Nature,' 1871, p. 481.)
The anthropomorphous apes, namely the gorilla,
chimpanzee, orang, and hylobates, are by
most naturalists separated from the other Old
World monkeys, as a distinct sub-group. I am
aware that Gratiolet, relying on the structure of