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IN “Monkeys; Their Affinities and Distribution,” by Dr. A. R. Wallace (reprinted in his “Studies; Scientific and Social,” vol. i.), the author gives (p. 183) as one of the characters in which man differs from all the monkey tribe—“the perfect freedom of the hands from all part in locomotion.”
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MARTIN, B. Does Man use his Arms in Locomotion?. Nature 65, 80 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065080c0
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