 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 pages
...Darwin infers that man is de1 Huxley : Man's Place in Nature, p. 103. 2 Ibid., p,105. scended 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 examined... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1873 - 444 pages
...quote Darwin's summary of his conclusions on the subject.* "Man," says Mr. Darwin, "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 examined... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...selection." (vol. ip 65) The grand conclusion is, " man (body, soul, and spirit) is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhab1 Descent of Man, etc. By Charles Darwin, MA, FRS. etc. New York, 1871, vol.... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...theory of the origin of man stated. Arguments in support of his conclusion 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." Argument from embryology ; from homologies, or similarity... | |
 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1874 - 284 pages
...much more information concerning the method of transition if we had an opportunity of examining the "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World," from which Mr. Darwin believes that we have descended.... | |
 | Armand de Quatrefages - 1875 - 190 pages
...approximately place in its proper position in the zoological series. We thus learn 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. This creature, if its whole structure had been examined... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1875 - 60 pages
...them in their proper position in the zoological series. We thus (!) learn that man in 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 examined... | |
 | Thompson Cooper - 1875 - 1072 pages
...one volume, with large additions. In this work the author infers that •• man ig deEceuded from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits." His meet recent publication is "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," 1872.... | |
 | 1876 - 642 pages
...place in nature seems to be pretty clearly defined. In spite of the fact that he ' is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits,' and that he ' still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin,'... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1876 - 444 pages
...take you down to Bristol in three hours, or built the Great Eastern ship, was only ' a descendant of a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.'" THE ANDAMAN MONKEY. In July, 1869, a new and unique monkey (Macacus andamanensis) was... | |
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Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits. 
