RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Philosophical Transactions, 1867. CUL-DAR80.B72. 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 1: 197-8. n13: "Mr. St. G. Mivart, 'Transact. Phil. Soc.' 1867, p. 410."
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Phil. Transact 1867. p 410. Mivart
after speaking of his great modification, in relation to erect [illeg] - We must not exaggerate his differences, "Man is but one of several exceptional forms of Primates"
Ch. 3
No doubt Man has been modified to a degree, beyond that which most of the other members have undergone chiefly in consequence of the high development of his arm & his erect posture, but we must bear in mind, as Mr St. G. Mivart has observed* that
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