oom for doubting the systematic position of the new
genus among those mammals whose young are nourished during
gestation by means of a placenta, or what are called the
placental mammals.

"Further, the most superficial study would at once convince us
that, among the orders of placental mammals, neither the whales,
nor the hoofed creatures, nor the sloths and ant-eaters, nor the
carnivorous cats, dogs, and bears, still less the rodent rats and
rabbits, or the insectivorous moles and hedgehogs, or the bats,
could claim our _Homo_ as one of themselves.

"There would remain, then, but one order for comparison, that of
the apes (using that word in its broadest sense), and the
question for discussion would narrow itself to this--Is Man so
different from any of these apes that he must form an order by
himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from
one another,--and hence must take his place in the same order
with them?

"Being happily free from all real or imaginary personal interest
in the results of the enquiry thus set afoot, we should proceed
to weigh the arguments on one side and on the other, with as much
judicial calmness as if the question related to a new opossum.
We should endeavour to ascertain, without seeking either to
magnify or diminish them, all the characters by which our new
mammal differed from the apes; and if we found that these were of
less structural value than those which distinguish certain
members of the ape order from others universally admitted to be
of the same order, we should undoubtedly place the newly
discovered tellurian genus with them."

In pursuit of this method, and taking the gorilla as the type for
immediate comparison with man, he passed in review the various
anatomical structures, shewing that in every case man did not differ
more from the gorilla than that differed from other anthropoids. We
shall take a few examples of his method and results, reminding our
readers, however, that Huxley carried his comparisons into every
important part of the anatomical structure.

There is no part of the skeleton so characteristically human as the
bones which form the pelvis, or bony girdle of the hips. The expanded
haunch-bones form a basin-like structure which affords support to the
soft internal viscera during the habitually upright positi