RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bonwick, Daily life and origin of the Tasmanians, 1870. CUL-DAR89.160. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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. 184. n39: "For these cases, see Bonwick's 'Daily Life of the Tasmanians,' 1870, p. 90; and the 'Last of the Tasmanians,' 1870, p. 386."
James Bonwick. 1870. Daily life and origin of the Tasmanians. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston.
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Bonwick Daily Life of the Tasmanians 1870 p 109 that hair usually grew
!! "remarkably low upon the forehead, extending down in both sexes in the shape of a whisker."
"Both sexes had the body more or less covered with a downy hair; the men showed a mass of soft curly hair on the thighs & breast."
How are Papuans? if their bodies smooth look like Ainos a case of reversion from climate.
give in Vol 2. p 321
S. Selection Man
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