General identity of human and animal structure--Rudiments and variations showing relation of man to other mammals--The embryonic development of man and other mammalia--Diseases common to man and the lower animals--The animals most nearly allied to man--The brains of man and apes--External differences of man and apes--Summary of the animal characteristics of man--The geological antiquity of man--The probable birthplace of man--The origin of the moral and intellectual nature of man--The argument from continuity--The origin of the mathematical faculty--The origin of the musical and artistic faculties--Independent proof that these faculties have not been developed by natural selection--The interpretation of the facts--Concluding remarks
CHAPTER XV · DARWINISM APPLIED TO MAN
From Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection by Alfred Russel Wallace.
