RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Our canine teeth still retain in their greater size & deeply implanted fangs traces of their proper function of tearing. CUL-DAR80.B74. 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: 126. n41: "Carl Vogt's 'Lectures on Man,' Eng. translat. 1864, p. 151."


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Vogt Lectures [illeg] p. 151

Heckel

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Our canine teeth still retain in their greater size & deeply implanted fangs traces of their proper function of tearing, though not some new projecting begun to all teeth & As Owen remarks, "their true character is indicated vol. 3. p. 323

Now occasionally we learn their former condition more plainly revealed by


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