text:  Of the conformation of the bony fabric in the human race the formation of the skull is the part of the greatest importance; we shall only therefore briefly notice as to the other parts of the skeleton that between the most uncultivated races of men and those tribes of apes which most nearly approach man there is a wide difference--the arms of the orang-outang reach to the ankle and those of the chimpanzee below the knee; the pelvis or central bony fabric differ much from those of the human race