The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I
CHAPTER VI.
ON THE AFFINITIES AND GENEALOGY OF MAN.
Position of man in the animal series--The natural system genealogical--Adaptive characters of slight value--Various small points of resemblance between man and the Quadrumana--Rank of man in the natural system--Birthplace and antiquity of man--Absence of fossil connecting-links--Lower stages in the genealogy of man, as inferred, firstly from his affinities and secondly from his structure--Early androgynous condition of the Vertebrata--Conclusion 185-213