The Descent of Man

ape- like creature, have not as yet been searched
by geologists.
LOWER STAGES IN THE GENEALOGY OF
MAN.
We have seen that man appears to have diverged
from the Catarrhine or Old World division
of the Simiadae, after these had diverged from
the New World division. We will now endeavour
to follow the remote traces of his genealogy,
trusting principally to the mutual affinities
between the various classes and orders, with
some slight reference to the periods, as far as
ascertained, of their successive appearance on
the earth. The Lemuridae stand below and near
to the Simiadae, and constitute a very distinct
family of the primates, or, according to Haeckel
and others, a distinct Order. This group is diversified
and broken to an extraordinary degree,
and includes many aberrant forms. It has,
therefore, probably suffered much extinction.