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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Weisbach, Reise der Novara. CUL-DAR85.A90. 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: 320, n11: "The results were deduced by Dr. Weisbach from the measurements made by Drs. K. Scherzer and Schwarz, see 'Reise der Novara: Anthropolog. Theil,' 1867, s. 216, 231, 234, 236, 239, 269."

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Man Sexual Selection

Novara's Reise.

p. x 216 218 sexual differences in height men & women, & man more variable in different races than woman. In different races the sexes differ in different characters

p 231

p 231 circumference of neck more variable in man than in woman

p 234 length of back bone do.

236 circumference of chests differs much in sexes in different races

239 length of arms differs much less in women of different races than in men of same.

243 Australian, South-asian & Negro approach Orangs nearest in length of arm.

265 - Java women smallest of all

267 Tahiti women the larger

269. Conclusion on variability of sexes

See about Hairiness.

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