The Natural History Review (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Natural History Review

With regard to the erect position, the reply is, that though some other animals, like the Penguins, have a true and habitual situs erectus, they differ widely in their organisation from man, while the creatures which approach him most nearly, never constantly and habitually maintain themselves in the erect posture: the natural attitude of the anthropoid ape being neither the vertical position of man, nor the horizontal posture of the lower quadrupeds, but an intermediate or oblique, attitude. The situs erectus then, and its correlative character, the natural heavenward,' or rather horizon-ward,' glance, stand good as distinctive peculiarities of man; the oblique pose of the anthro poid ape furnishing the half-way step from man to the quadruped.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.