 His structural superiority consists solely in the complexity and size of the brain. A very important lesson is derived from these and kindred facts. The monkeys were anticipated in the greater fields of the world's activity by more powerful rivals. The...  Science - Page 2381884Full view - About this book
 | Edward Drinker Cope - 1886 - 558 pages
...natural size. accomplished a much greater work, the evolution of the human braiu and its functions. A very important lesson is derived from these and...Carnivora, driven by hunger, learned the arts and cruelty of the chase. The weaker ancestors of the Quadrumana possessed neither speed nor weapons of... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1890 - 288 pages
...thoroughly primitive. . . . His structural superiority consists solely in the complexity and size of his brain. ... A very important lesson is derived from...more powerful rivals. The ancestors of the ungulates 6 held the fields and the swamps ; and the carnivora, driven by hunger, learned the arts and cruelties... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 856 pages
...joint is not so perfect as in many of them. In his teeth his character is thoroughly primitive. * * * His structural superiority consists solely in the...ungulates held the fields and the swamps, and the C:irnivora, driven by hunger, learned the arts and cruelties of the chase. The weaker ancestors of... | |
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