RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Sexual selection / Ch. I p. 33 my M.S. The fact shown by Eschricht. CUL-DAR85.A60. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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 2: 379, n22: "'Ueber die Richtung der Haare am Menschlichen Körper,' in Müller's 'Archiv für Anat. und Phys.' 1837, s. 40."
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Reference for * Sexual selection
Ch. I p. 33 my M.S. The fact shown by Eschricht the [fœtus] of ♀ have [moustache] in strongest evidence that both sexes of monkeys originally like any monkey had moustache & beard & that it has been lost by ♀ through sexual selection. In greater bearing of same case, probably case of simple greater retention but may be due to reversion.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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