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Fascinating natural history with a rich iconographic apparatus representing the monkeys known until the end of the eighteenth century. Interesting is the part in which a courageous monkey-man continuum is described who wants to reinforce the idea of the animal nature of our species (naturalistic anthropology). The anthropomorphic apes are classified according to their prognathism and the orang-utan, the first ape "at eye level", "occupies almost the last place in the large family of apes". If one thinks that the Origin of Species will only come out in 1859, or almost 50 years later, one understands how such a work can be fully defined as a forerunner of Darwinian evolutionary theories b>.
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