"Gorilla Trails in Paradise": Carl Akeley, Mary Bradley, and the American Search for the Missing Link

From: The Journal of American Culture | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Jones, Jeannette Eileen | Copyright information

In 1881, Ward's Natural Science Bulletin published the anonymously authored poem "The Missing Link." Referencing decades-long debates over the relationship of man to ape, and the spiritual, intellectual, and moral capacities of apes, chimpanzees, and orangutans (Desmond 45, 141, 289), the poem recounts the following tale of a simian king ordered by his council to find a bride. When pressed by his "lords of state" to "mate," as the time arose for him to perform his royal duties, the simian reg...

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