RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Many monkeys have great power of moving skin of Head. CUL-DAR87.17. 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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 13.
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Many monkeys have great power of moving skin of Head - the Black Macacus inornatus maurus has this power remarkably; but the Gorilla more concerns concerns us, & Huxley (p. 48 Mans place in nature) says "the animal has the power of moving the scalp freely forward & back, & when enraged is said to contract it strongly over the brow, thus bringing down the hairy ridge and pointing the hair forward, so as to present an indescribably ferocious aspect."
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I am sure that Savage (see Huxley) in describing Gorilla in fury. Talk of skin on scalp moving around. Where I describe Decandolle pitching book off, his own head put* about Gorilla - as Homo v. Darwin sneers at this.
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[Descent 2d ed., Index: "De Candolle, Alph., on a case of inherited power of moving the scalp, 13."]
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