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On Some Fossil Remains of Manby Thomas H. HuxleyI HAVE endeavoured to show, in the preceding Essay, that the ANTHROPINI,or Man Family, form a very well defined group of the Primates, betweenwhich and the immediately following Family, the CATARHINI, there is, inthe existing world, the same entire absence of any transitional form orconnecting link, as between the CATARHINI and PLATYRHINI.It is a commonly received doctrine, however, that the structuralintervals between the various existing modifications of organic beingsmay be diminished, or even obliterated, if we take into account thelong and varied succession of animals and plants which have preceded...