RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'Several monkeys, baboons, macacus &c have instead of rounded ears, slightly pointed'. CUL-DAR80.B8. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2020. 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).
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Feb 23 Z. G. – Several monkeys, baboons, macacus &c have instead of rounded ears, slightly pointed & were folded in at the front; now if these ears retained their present articulation, & were folded in the wall by an inwardly directed & perhaps partially outwardly projected, slight blunt projection.
This is the case with Ears of Aletes belzebutt, & occasionally with man.-
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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