RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Deer Antelopes & Sheep / Draft of Descent. CUL-DAR85.B136. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1
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B136
(Deer Antelopes & Sheep)
B136v
the head is greatly admired. & is esteemed one of the highest beauties. If we were to find see a quadrumanous animal, with tresses of hair on elegent head of extreme length when hair as long as their body, growing from the head & of no sort of use, we should be almost justified in my opinion in attributing their presence this character such development altogether common to both sexes to sexual selection, even though we did not know that this was considered highly ornamental by our [illeg] From these considerations I
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