RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'In Gorilla tail much more parallel than in Macacus.' CUL-DAR80.A2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
James Murie was prosector to the Zoological Society of London from 1865 to 1870.
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In Gorilla tail much more parallel than in Macacus.
In man os coccyx if prolonged, wd come out in front, but that position depends on allied form of sacrum as animal became erect.— (Huxley)
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Dr. Murie on os coccyx
Huxley says that in Gibraltar Inuus there are embedded vertebrae—
In man the os coccyx is very little curved in itself, but the curvature depends on curvature of sacrum.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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