...content with expressing his belief that " man is certainly descended from some ape-like creature"—" a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World ;" he traces our early progenitors to an aquatic animal,...

...Catarrhine or Old World monkeys." And thence follows the following lovely picture: "Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." 2. Natural and unteleological selection. The variations...

...of his audience — for the article consists of a lecture — when, more than once, he mentioned the ''hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits." Still, it is possible to conceive of a time when the division between literature and science shall...

...from parents to offspring; and in another work he states his inference that "man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits." Mr. Darwin was a member of various English and foreign scientific institutes, received...

..." Origin and Descent of Man," thus promulgates his theory. He writes : — " Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished " " with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its " "habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This" "creature, if its whole structure had been...

...all his investigations, Darwin states as his opinion that man must be considered as "descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." 1 According to Hackel, this Homo primigenius was a blackish, woolly-haired,...

...all his investigations, Darwin states as his opinion that man must be considered as "descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." ' According to Hackel, this Homo primigenius was a blackish, woolly-haired,...

...humanities the natural and necessary stream of things, which seemed against them when we started. The 'hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits,' this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity...

...kingdom thereby. Nevertheless, Darwin contends with admirable consistency that — "Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world The early progenitors of man were no doubt well covered...

...published with large additions in 1874. In this book he declares his belief that 'man is descended from a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.'. Medals, orders, and degrees, as the reward of merit, fell from all sides on the distinguished...