...approximstelr plaro them in their proper position in the soological series. We thus learn thni moo is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with...a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its ha'iiu, and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole strnctaro had been examined...

...will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was ' a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits,' there will be found to arise an invincible desire to relate this proposition to the sense...

...Age, as Gillian Beer has shown, was disbarred by Darwinian theory. Darwin locates our ancestor in that 'hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits',30 so unappealing, as Matthew Arnold put it - half-smiling, we hope - to the sense in us for...

...attack. Religious readers pointed with horror at Darwin's too vivid description of man's ancestor as " a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in habits." Darwin's work and everything connected with it aroused virulent hostility throughout the 186o's...

...last we come to propositions so interesting as Mr. Darwin's famous proposition that 'our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.'" Arnold does not reject this proposition nor declare it irrelevant to humane letters....

...our embryological structure clearly indicated that we are "descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." If we are not exactly descended from the monkeys, we certainly share a common ancestor with them. TWELVE...

...speech by calling such conduct "scientific." I may have no right to object to Mr. Darwin's believing that "man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World," but I can not be denied the right to ask him to produce some evidence of his assertion. Dr. Eldridge,...

...ancestor more generalized than any of its living descendants. This ancestor was, according to Darwin, a "hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed...in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World." Darwin's argument was a biological one, structured as we've seen around the use of embryological and...

...blessed them and called their name Adam EVOLUTION S ACCOUNT. (From Darwin's Descent of Man, ii, 372.) " Man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arborial in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole structure had...

...human aspect — the sensational news that all people were descended not from Adam but from the apes: from 'a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits'. Darwin had been collecting data on the formation of species ever since his voyage on HMS Beagle to...