Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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d egg, which dividesand subdivides as it grows until it eventually gives rise to the millions of cells in theadult body. In order to facilitate comparison the corresponding stages in the differentlines of development have been enlarged to about the same size, regardless of scale.Thus the human t^g, which measures only about 1/250 of an inch in diameter, ishere shown nearly as big as the Qg^ of the Port Jackson shark, which measures abouttwo inches (bottom row). The picture shows seven out of the innumerable stages ofdevelopment. The second row illustrates late cleavage stages. In the third row notethe beginning of somites (body segments); in the fourth row gill slits and the beginningof the fore limbs are indicated; the fifth row shows late embryos with fore and hindlimb buds; sixth row, late foetal, newly hatched, or new-born stages; top row, adults C75) MAN AMONG THE PRIMATES Mans position on the troe of life is among the primatesand his branch is next to that of the anthropoid apes
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iJT^/^^- J ^Vii,* Fin. 34, MAN AMONG THE PRIMATES (Wall Chart 6) (76) INTRODLCnON IO HUMAN ANATOMY

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