Gorillas & Chimpanzees

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Garner Richard Lynch. Gorillas & Chimpanzees

CHAPTER I. MAN AND APE COMPARED

CHAPTER II. CAGED IN AN AFRICAN JUNGLE

CHAPTER III. DAILY LIFE AND SCENES IN THE JUNGLE

CHAPTER IV. THE CHIMPANZEE

CHAPTER V. PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, AND MENTAL QUALITIES

CHAPTER VI. THE SPEECH OF CHIMPANZEES

CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTURE AND CHARACTER OF MOSES

CHAPTER VIII. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MOSES

CHAPTER IX. AARON

CHAPTER X. AARON AND ELISHEBA

CHAPTER XI. THE DEATH OF AARON AND ELISHEBA

CHAPTER XII. OTHER CHIMPANZEES

CHAPTER XIII. OTHER KULU-KAMBAS

CHAPTER XIV. GORILLAS

CHAPTER XV. HABITS OF THE GORILLA

CHAPTER XVI. OTHELLO AND OTHER GORILLAS

CHAPTER XVII. OTHER APES

CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREATMENT OF APES IN CAPTIVITY

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Monkeys have always been a subject of idle interest to old and young; but they have usually served to amuse the masses more than to instruct them, until within recent years.

Now that science has brought them within the field of careful research, and made them an object of serious study, it has invested them with a certain dignity in the esteem of mankind, and imparted to them a new aspect among animals.

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In the cranial types, it is readily seen that the skull of man is nearly round and the face is vertical, while the skull of the ape is elongated and the face receding. These facts deserve more notice than the mere mention of their being so.

In the whole scheme of nature certain laws obtain in the projection of skulls. The angle between the plane of the face and the spinal axis is co-ordinate to the angle between the spinal axis and the perpendicular.

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