The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition)Darwin, Charles
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition)
Darwin, Charles
Evolution (Biology); Human beings -- Origin; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sexual selection in animals
[371] Dr. Gray, ‘Gleanings from the Menagerie of Knowsley,’ p.
64. Mr. Blyth, in speaking (‘Land and Water,’ 1869, p. 42) of
the hog-deer of Ceylon, says it is more brightly spotted with
white than the common hog-deer, at the season when it renews
its horns.
[372] Falconer and Cautley, ‘Proc. Geolog. Soc.’ 1843; and
Falconer’s ‘Pal. Memoirs,’ vol. i. p. 196.
[373] ‘The Variation of Animals and Plants under
Domestication,’ 1868, vol. i. p. 61-64.
[374] ‘Proc. Zool. Soc.’ 1862, p. 164. See, also, Dr. Hartmann,
‘Ann. d. Landw.’ Bd. xliii. s. 222.
[375] I observed this fact in the Zoological Gardens; and
numerous cases may be seen in the coloured plates in Geoffroy
St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, ‘Hist. Nat. des Mammifères,’ tom. i.
1824.
[376] Bates, ‘The Naturalist on the Amazons,’ 1863, vol. ii. p.
310.
[377] I have seen most of the above-named monkeys in the
Zoological Society’s Gardens. The description of the
_Semnopithecus nemæus_ is taken from Mr. W. C. Martin’s ‘Nat.
Hist. of Mammalia,’ 1841, p. 460; see also p. 475, 523.
[378] Schaaffhausen, translation in ‘Anthropological Review,’
Oct. 1868, p. 419, 420, 427.
[379] Ecker, translation in ‘Anthropological Review,’ Oct.
1868, p. 351-356. The comparison of the form of the skull in
men and women has been followed out with much care by Welcker.
[380] Ecker and Welcker, ibid. p. 352, 355; Vogt, ‘Lectures on
Man,’ Eng. translat. p. 81.
[381] Schaaffhausen, ‘Anthropolog. Review,’ ibid. p. 429.
[382] Pruner-Bey, on negro infants, as quoted by Vogt,
‘Lectures on Man,’ Eng. translat. 1864, p. 189: for further
facts on negro infants, as quoted from Winterbottom and Camper,
see Lawrence, ‘Lectures on Physiology,’ &c. 1822, p. 451. For
the infants of the Guaranys, see Rengger, ‘Säugethiere,’ &c. s.
3. See also Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ tom. ii. 1859, p. 253. For
the Australians, Waitz, ‘Introduct. to Anthropology,’ Eng.
translat. 1863, p. 99.
[383] Rengger, ‘Säugethiere,’ &c. 1830, s. 49.
[384] As in _Macacus cynomolgus_ (Desmarest, ‘Mammalogie,’ p.
65) and in _Hylobates agilis_ (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F.
Cuvier, ‘Hist. Nat. des Mamm.’ 1824, tom. i. p. 2).
[385] ‘Anthropological Review,’ Oct. 1868, p. 353.
[386] Mr. Blyth informs me that he has never seen more than one
instance of the beard, whiskers, &c., in a monkey becoming
white with old age, as is so commonly the case with us. This,
however, occurred in an aged and confined _Macacus cynomolgus_,
whose moustaches were “remarkably long and human-like.”
Altogether this old monkey presented a ludicrous resemblance to
one of the reigning monarchs of Europe, after whom he was
universally nick-named. In certain races of man the hair on the
head hardly ever becomes grey; thus Mr. D. Forbes has never
seen, as he informs me, an instance with the Aymaras and
Quechuas of S. America.
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