(Compare with opposite picture.)]
[Illustration: _After a model by J. H. McGregor._
PROFILE VIEW OF HEAD OF PITHECANTHROPUS, THE JAVA APE MAN, RECONSTRUCTED
FROM THE SKULL-CAP.]
[Illustration: THE FLIPPER OF A WHALE AND THE HAND OF A MAN
In the bones and in their arrangement there is a close resemblance in
the two cases, yet the outcome is very different. The multiplication of
finger joints in the whale is a striking feature.]
Some men, oftener than women, show on the inturned margin of the
ear-trumpet or pinna, a little conical projection of great interest. It
is a vestige of the tip of the pointed ear of lower mammals, and it is
well named _Darwin's point_. It was he who described it as a "surviving
symbol of the stirring times and dangerous days of man's animal youth."
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