Quadruman Vs Darwinism

Darwin attributes the change of bodily structures of man from its early progenitors to the natural law of Natural Selection that affects the structures either directly or indirectly. One example Darwin gives, is how the human hand was altered and shaped by Natural Selection. He states that the Quadrumana have homologous structures to the human hand; however, the Quadrumana doesn’t use it for locomotion, but instead for climbing trees. Although, different species of monkeys are able to use their hands to retrieve food and grasp objects such as stones and bottles etc., when doing a simple task such as throwing a stone, the stone is grasped clumsily; hence, they are not able to throw it with precision. Darwin goes to argue that the monkey hasn’t

To gain this great advantage also the feet of the species would need to be rendered flat, as well as the great toe being modified greatly for the advantage of standing straight. Darwin goes on to state in order to add more validity to natural selection that an intermediate form can still be seen in the savages that still have retain some of their prehensile powers which they use to their advantage to climb trees. Moreover, as the hands and feet began to get adapted to man’s new way of life, it would give them various advantages. For instance, being able to defend themselves with stones and be able to attack their prey with them. As this new structure starts to being developed, those who inherit this structure will go on to live and those that don’t will eventually die off. Additionally, as the man became more erect it developed its spinal cord for support as well as other structures. As man, started to develop its mental faculties and started to perfect the way to hunt, it would lead the teeth to be reduced in size and the canine teeth to slowly disappeared Darwin goes on to state that man has lost its hair not because it is advantageous to them in their environment but because of sexual selection. Finally, another structure that Darwin mentions is the tail that becomes vestigial in humans due to simply friction when man sit