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Translated into phylogenetic language, this "pithecometra-law," formulated in such masterly fashion by Huxley, is quite equivalent to the popular saying: "Man is descended from the apes." In the very first exposition of his profound natural classification Linne placed the anthropoid mammals at the head of the animal kingdom, with three genera: man, the ape, and the sloth.
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