RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871.03.15. Pouting. CUL-DAR162.138.1-2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR162 contains letters to Darwin: Dabney – Dupré and miscellaneous notes pertaining to Expression, Cross and self fertilisation, Movement in plants and Earthworms.
Darwin refers to Jenny the orangutan. See John van Wyhe & Peter C. Kjaergaard, 2015. Going the whole orang: Darwin, Wallace and the natural history of orangutans . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. See also Expression, p. 140.
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Pouting. I well remember the oran orang when sulky disappointed & thinking itself injured, protruded its lips in an extraordinary way, in fact pouted
Hence children by descent do the same; let wh [text excised] I cannot conjec
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in children should show interested expression of Pouting (& it is expressive as far as I know chiefly confined to is not more surprising, in same manner than that, as kids & should retain from display their alpine parentage a taste for by fishing in [text excised]
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March 15/71 Quite a small proportion of children pout — Mr Keele Mr Keele Sandford (through William) & other evidence
C. Hawkshaw &c &c — I infer that pouting must be extremely general with savages, & is now being lost with us.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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