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Apes and monkeys; their life and language (1900)

Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920 · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 249

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rsso that the bones can be brought in line and the limbsstraightened. The gorilla can stand upon his feet alone and walk afew steps in that position ; but his motion is very awk-ward ; his knees turn outward, forming an angle of 400 or500 on either side of the mesial plane. He never attemptsto walk… … YOUNG GORILLA WALKING(From a Drawing.) POSTURE OF GORILLA 227 is called the calf of the leg, but in the apes this is verysmall. However, there is a tendency in the ape to developthat feature. In the human species the calf of the legappears to belong to the higher types of men. As wedescend from the…

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