barbary apes การใช้

Behind the walls of monasteries, where knowledge lived, little more was known about human biology and the various ways in which death teased upon it than Hippocrates had theorized in the fourth and fifth centuries B . C ., or than Galen learned by dissecting a Barbary ape in the second century A . D . The interiors of apes, it turned out, differ in important ways from those of people.
Among the original aspects of his thinking there is a kind of anticipation of Darwinism, because, after a first half in which he argues that the animal species arise by spontaneous generation from the earth, in the second part he seems convinced that they can be transformed into each other and that man comes from " animals related to man, such as the Barbary apes, the monkeys and apes in general ".