The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Martin, A general introduction to the natural history of mammiferous animals, etc. CUL-DAR80.B118. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent vol. 1, p. 43, n9: "W. C. L. Martin, 'Nat. Hist. of Mammalia,' 1841, p. 405."

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W. C. L. Martin Nat. Hist Mamm Animals p. 359 & 361 divides the Simiadae into 3 sub-fams - 1st with Chimp. Orang, & Hylob. "which are obviously allied to each other & as obviously separate from all that succeed.

The 2nd sub-fam. includes Senmopi: & probably Colobus, which differ in their sacculated stomachs, molar teeth & reduced fore thumbs.

3rd fam. includes Cercopi: Macacus & Cynoceph., which graduate into each other.

Rutimeyer on a form connecting old & new world monkey

Gaudry shows that Semnopithecus & Macacus united at early [Tertiary] Miocene Period?

When Dryopithecus existed

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Orang

Gibbon

Man

[diagram of branching]

Semnopithc

Macacus

Drypithcus

Old World

New World

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