The Descent of Man

the brain, does not admit the existence of this
sub-group, and no doubt it is a broken one.
Thus the orang, as Mr. St. G. Mivart remarks,
"is one of the most peculiar and aberrant forms
to be found in the Order." (13. 'Transactions,
Zoolog. Soc.' vol. vi. 1867, p. 214.) The remaining
non-anthropomorphous Old World monkeys,
are again divided by some naturalists into
two or three smaller sub-groups; the genus
Semnopithecus, with its peculiar sacculated
stomach, being the type of one sub-group. But
it appears from M. Gaudry's wonderful discoveries
in Attica, that during the Miocene period
a form existed there, which connected Semnopithecus
and Macacus; and this probably illustrates
the manner in which the other and higher
groups were once blended together.
If the anthropomorphous apes be admitted to
form a natural sub-group, then as man agrees
with them, not only in all those characters
which he possesses in common with the whole