A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 9

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

IX MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN Naturalists divide the class Mammalia into a number of orders. At the head of these is the order Primates, which includes the lemurs, the monkeys, apes and man. Their classification was based originally upon ...Read Moreresemblances and took no account of any mental qualities. Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record. They are for the most part animals which live in forests like the lemurs and monkeys or in bare rocky places like the baboons. They are rarely drowned and covered up by sediment, nor Read Less