“These examples… show that, in whatever proportion of its limbs the Gorilla differs from Man, the other Apes depart still more widely from the Gorilla and that, consequently, such differences of proportion can have no ordinal value.”

Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 89

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English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895

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