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WHAT would have been said a few years ago of a popular history of animals of which the opening chapters were devoted to man and his resemblance to other members of the Order Primates? In the days when it was the fashion to place man in a separate order of Bimana, while the man-like apes were called Quadrumana, the mere idea of including the human race in the animal kingdom would have raised a storm of indignation. Yet here we have a book, intended for a popular public, in which the principle of relationship is fully recognised, and man is assigned his proper place in nature. Thus do the scientific ideas which are anathema of one generation become the accepted truths of the next.
Popular History of Animals for Young People.
By Henry Scherren Pp. 376. (London: Cassell and Co., Limited, 1895.)
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Popular History of Animals for Young People. Nature 52, 642 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052642a0
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