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Cuckoo-Spit |
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Photo: G. P. Duffus. |
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Chimpanzee, Sitting |
156 |
Photo: New York Zoological Park. |
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Chimpanzee, Illustrating Walking Powers |
156 |
Photo: New York Zoological Park. |
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Surface View of the Brains of Man and Chimpanzee |
157 |
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Side-View of Chimpanzee's Head |
157 |
Photo: New York Zoological Park. |
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Profile View of Head of Pithecanthropus, the Java Ape-Man, Reconstructed from the Skull-Cap |
157 |
After a model by J. H. McGregor. |
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The Flipper of a Whale and the Hand of a Man |
157 |
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The Gorilla, Inhabiting the Forest Tract of the Gaboon in Africa (Coloured Illustration) |
158 |
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"Darwin's Point" on Human Ear |
160 |
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Professor Sir Arthur Keith, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. |
161 |
Photo: J. Russell & Sons. |
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Skeletons of the Gibbon, Orang, Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Man |
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After T. H. Huxley (by permission of Messrs. Macmillan). |
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Side-View of Skull of Man and Gorilla |
164 |
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The Skull and Brain-Case of Pithecanthropus, the Java Ape-Man, as Restored by J. H. McGregor from the Scanty Remains |
164 |
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Suggested Genealogical Tree of Man and Anthropoid Apes |
165 |
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The Gibbon is Lower than the Other Apes as Regards its Skull and Dentition, but it is highly Specialized in the Adaptation of its Limbs to Arboreal Life |
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Photo: New York Zoological Park. |
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The Orang Has a High Rounded Skull and a Long Face |
166 |
Photo: New York Zoological Park. |
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Comparisons of the Skeletons of Horse and Man |
167 |
Photo: British Museum (Natural History). |
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A Reconstruction of the Java Man (Coloured Illustration) |
168 |
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Profile View of the Head of Pithecanthropus, the Java Ape-Man—an Early Offshoot from the Main Line of Man's Ascent |
170 |
After a model by J. H. McGregor. |
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Piltdown Skull |
170 |
From the reconstruction by J. H. McGregor. |
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Sand-Pit at Mauer, near Heidelberg: Discovery Site of the Jaw of Heidelberg Man |
171 |
Reproduced by permission from Osborn's Men of the Old Stone Age. |
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Paintings on the Roof of the Altamira Cave in Northern Spain, Showing a Bison and a Galloping Boar (Coloured Illustration) |
172 |
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Piltdown Man, Preceding Neanderthal Man, Perhaps 100,000 to 150,000 Years Ago |
174 |
After the restoration modelled by J. H. McGregor. |
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The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints |
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After the restoration modelled by J. H. McGregor. |
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Restoration by A. Forestier of the Rhodesian Man whose Skull was Discovered in 1921 |
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Side View of a Prehistoric Human Skull Discovered in 1921 in Broken Hill Cave, Northern Rhodesia |
178 |
Photo: British Museum (Natural History). |
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A Cromagnon Man or Cromagnard, Representative of a Strong Artistic Race Living in the South of France in the Upper Pleistocene, Perhaps 25,000 Years Ago |
178 |
After the restoration modelled by J. H. McGregor. |
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Photograph Showing a Narrow Passage in the Cavern of Font-de-Gaume on the Beune |
179 |
Reproduced by permission from Osborn's Men of the Old Stone Age. |
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A Mammoth Drawn on the Wall of the Font-de-Gaume Cavern |
179 |
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A Grazing Bison, Delicately and Carefully Drawn, Engraved on a Wall of the Altamira Cave, Northern Spain |
179 |
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Photograph of a Median Section through the Shell of the Pearly Nautilus |
186 |
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Photograph of the Entire Shell of the Pearly Nautilus |
186 |
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Nautilus |
186 |
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Shoebill |
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Photo: W. S. Berridge. |
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The Walking-Fish or Mud-Skipper (Periophthalmus), Common at the Mouths of Rivers in Tropical Africa, Asia, and North-West Australia |
190 |
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The Australian More-Pork or Podargus |
190 |
Photo: The Times. |
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Pelican's Bill, Adapted for Catching and Storing Fishes |
191 |
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Spoonbill's Bill, Adapted for Sifting the Mud and Catching the Small Animals, e.g. Fishes, Crustaceans, Insect Larvæ, which Live there |
191 |
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Avocet's Bill, Adapted for a Curious Sideways Scooping in the Shore-Pools and Catching Small Animals |
191 |
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Hornbill's Bill, Adapted for Excavating a Nest in a Tree, and Also for Seizing and Breaking Diverse Forms of Food, from Mammals to Tortoises, from Roots to Fruits |
191 |
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Falcon's Bill, Adapted for Seizing, Killing, and Tearing Small Mammals and Birds |
191 |
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Puffin's Bill, Adapted for Catching Small Fishes near the Surface of the Sea, and for Holding them when Caught and Carrying them to the Nest |
191 |
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Life-History of a Frog |
192 |
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Hind-Leg of Whirligig Beetle which has Become Beautifully Modified for Aquatic Locomotion |
192 |
Photo: J. J. Ward, F.E.S. |
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The Big Robber-Crab (Birgus Latro), that Climbs the Coconut Palm and Breaks off the Nuts |
193 |
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