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The baby could be anything from normal to a monstrosity. "Perfectly normal," Brainard said. "A true Betan type even down to the vestigial tail. We amputated that, of course." "Thank Ochsner!" Kennon breathed. "I was afraid." "Of course you were," Brainard said. "Do you want to see them now? When I left, Copper was asking for you." Kennon sighed.
The horns, so prominent in the savages Stevens had seen, were in this highly intelligent race but vestigial three small, sharp, black protuberances only an inch in length, one surmounting each ear, outlining the lofty forehead. The nose occupied almost the whole middle of the face and was not really a nose it developed into a small and active proboscis.
These are the most extensive movements made. The vestigial legs remain inert and absolutely useless. Then why are they there? It were better to lose them altogether, if it be true that crawling inside the oak has deprived the animal of the good legs with which it started.
But we should do well to remind ourselves that while those who regard evil merely as a vestigial memory of human evolution do little or nothing to check its ravages, men like General Booth, and the men and women inspired by his abhorrence, save every year from physical and moral destruction thousands of unhappy people who become at once the apostles of an extreme goodness.
A more curious reminiscence is seen in the fact that the very young infant, flabby and powerless as it is in most of its muscles, is so strong in the muscles of the hand and arm that it can hang on to a stick by its hands, and sustain the whole weight of its body, for several minutes. Finally, our vestigial tail for we have a tail comparable to that of the higher apes must be mentioned.
They clung to things and pressed themselves against things, and they stared with unfocused eyes at something which had been there before but was not there now. These men seemed to be wearing greasy fezzes and dark, baggy long underwear with buttons and vestigial lapels.
In our return to phylogenetic, ontogenetic, rudimentary, unconscious, organic reactions, to atavistic, prehistoric, performed, embryonic, immature methods of response, the vestigial remnants, revivals of long ago, which have been submerged but which now reappear due to our reversionary tendencies uprooted by dissociation, disintegration or regression, with its lapse or descent to low cultural or psychic levels these old components which reappear or rather fall apart and appear as independent activities, are exaggerated, inflated, caricatured or excessively performed.
We now call these toes "vestigial," and know the pig's ancestors used them, walking on four toes and not on two, as at present. Buffon believed there were degenerations as well as developments, and considered the ape a degenerate man. He conceived these changes to be brought about by what he called the favors and disfavors of nature.
That the human has within it a large number of vestigial structures some scientists place it as high as one hundred and seventy is now well known, and forms at the same time one of the evidences of evolution and an impeachment of the theistic theory.
Only in the light of the contrastive perspective afforded by still more divergent languages, such as Basque and Finnish, will these vestigial resemblances receive their true historic value. I cannot but suspect that many of the more significant distributions of morphological similarities are to be explained as just such vestiges.
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