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On the Genesis of Species

CHAPTER XII
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That man's body was created in a manner different in kind from that by which the bodies of other animals were created; or 2.
That it was created in a similar manner to theirs.
One of the authors of the Darwinian theory, indeed, contends that even{278} as regards man's body, an action took place different from that by which brute forms were evolved.

Mr.Wallace[299] considers that "Natural Selection" alone could not have produced so large a brain in the savage, in possessing which he is furnished with an organ beyond his needs.

Also that it could not have produced that peculiar distribution of hair, especially the nakedness of the back, which is common to all races of men, nor the peculiar construction of the feet and hands.

He says,[300] after speaking of the prehensile foot, common without a single exception to all the apes and lemurs, "It is difficult to see why the prehensile power should have been taken away" by the mere operation of Natural Selection.

"It must certainly have been useful in climbing, and the case of the baboons shows that it is quite compatible with terrestrial locomotion.


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