The Descent of Man 30Sexual Selection in Relation to Man, and Conclusion · General a Summary and Conclusion (part 3)
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The Descent of Man 30
Sexual Selection in Relation to Man, and Conclusion · General a Summary and Conclusion (part 3)
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Delorenzi, G., division of malar bone.
Demerara, yellow fever in.
Dendrocygna.
Dendrophila frontalis, young of.
Denison, Sir W., manner of ridding themselves of vermin among the Australians; extinction of Tasmanians.
Denny, H., on the lice of domestic animals.
Dermestes murinus, stridulation of.
Descent traced through the mother alone.
Deserts, protective colouring of animals inhabiting.
Desmarest, on the absence of suborbital pits in Antilope subgutturosa; on the whiskers of Macacus; on the colour of the opossum; on the colours of the sexes of Mus minutus; on the colouring of the ocelot; on the colours of seals; on Antilope caama; on the colours of goats; on sexual difference of colour in Ateles marginatus; on the mandrill; on Macacus cynomolgus.
Desmoulins, on the number of species of man; on the muskdeer.
Desor, on the imitation of man by monkeys.
Despine, P., on criminals destitute of conscience.
Development, embryonic of man; correlated.
Devil, not believed in by the Fuegians.
Devil-crab.
Devonian, fossil-insect from the.
Dewlaps, of Cattle and antelopes.
Diadema, sexual differences of colouring in the species of.
Didelphis opossum, sexual difference in the colour of.
Differences, comparative, between different species of birds of the same sex.
Digits, supernumerary, more frequent in men than in women; supernumerary, inheritance of; supernumerary, early development of.
Dimorphism, in females of water-beetles; in Neurothemis and Agrion.
Diodorus, on the absence of beard in the natives of Ceylon.
Dipelicus Cantori, sexual differences of.
Diplopoda, prehensile limbs of the male.
Dipsas cynodon, sexual difference in the colour of.
Diptera.
Disease, generated by the contact of distinct peoples.
Diseases, common to man and the lower animals; difference of liability to, in different races of men; new, effects of, upon savages; sexually limited.
Display, coloration of Lepidoptera for; of plumage by male birds.
Distribution, wide, of man; geographical, as evidence of specific distinctness in man.
Disuse, effects of, in producing rudimentary organs; and use of parts, effects of; of parts, influence of, on the races of men.
Divorce, freedom of, among the Charruas.
Dixon, E.S., on the pairing of different species of geese; on the courtship of peafowl.
Dobrizhoffer, on the marriage-customs of the Abipones.
Dobson, Dr., on the Cheiroptera; scent-glands of bats; frugivorous bats.
Dogs, suffering from tertian ague; memory of; dreaming; diverging when drawing sledges over thin ice; exercise of reasoning faculties by; domestic, progress of, in moral qualities; distinct tones uttered by; parallelism between his affection for his master and religious feeling; sociability of the; sympathy of, with a sick cat; sympathy of, with his master; their possession of conscience; possible use of the hair on the fore-legs of the; races of the; numerical proportion of male and female births in; sexual affection between individuals of; howling at certain notes; rolling in carrion.
Dolichocephalic structure, possible cause of.
Dolphins, nakedness of.
Domestic animals, races of; change of breeds of.
Domestication, influence of, in removing the sterility of hybrids.
D’Orbigny, A., on the influence of dampness and dryness on the colour of the skin; on the Yuracaras.
Dotterel.
Doubleday, E., on sexual differences in the wings of butterflies.
Doubleday, H., on the proportion of the sexes in the smaller moths; males of Lasiocampa quercus and on the attraction of the Saturnia carpini by the female; on the proportion of the sexes in the Lepidoptera; on the ticking of Anobium tesselatum; on the structure of Ageronia feronia; on white butterflies alighting upon paper.
Douglas, J.W., on the sexual differences of the Hemiptera; colours of British Homoptera.
Down, of birds.
Draco, gular appendages of.
Dragonet, Gemmeous.
Dragon-flies, caudal appendages of male; relative size of the sexes of; difference in the sexes of; want of pugnacity by the male.
Drake, breeding plumage of the.
Dreams, possible source of the belief in spiritual agencies.
Drill, sexual difference of colour in the.
Dromaeus irroratus.
Dromolaea, Saharan species of.
Drongo shrike.
Drongos, racket-shaped feathers in the tails of.
Dryness of climate, supposed influence of, on the colour of the skin.
Dryopithecus.
Duck, harlequin, age of mature plumage in the; breeding in immature plumage.
Duck, long-tailed, preference of male, for certain females.
Duck, pintail, pairing with a widgeon.
Duck, voice of the; pairing with a shield-drake; immature plumage of the.
Duck, wild, sexual differences in the; speculum and male characters of; pairing with a pin-tail drake.
Ducks, wild, becoming polygamous under partial domestication; dogs and cats recognised by.
Dufosse, Dr., sounds produced by fish.
Dugong, nakedness of; tusks of.
Dujardin, on the relative size of the cerebral ganglia, in insects.
Duncan, Dr., on the fertility of early marriages; comparative health of married and single.
Dupont, M., on the occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man.
Durand, J.P., on causes of variation.
Dureau de la Malle, on the songs of birds; on the acquisition of an air by blackbirds.
Dutch, retention of their colour by the, in South Africa.
Duty, sense of.
Duvaucel, female Hylobates washing her young.
Dyaks, pride of, in mere homicide.
Dynastes, large size of males of.
Dynastini, stridulation of.
Dytiscus, dimorphism of females of; grooved elytra of the female.
Eagle, young Cercopithecus rescued from, by the troop.
Eagle, white-headed, breeding in immature plumage.
Eagles, golden, new mates found by.
Ear, motion of the; external shell of the, useless in man; rudimentary point of the, in man.
Ears, more variable in men than women; piercing and ornamentation of the.
Earwigs, parental feeling in.
Echidna.
Echini, bright colours of some.
Echinodermata, absence of secondary sexual characters in.
Echis carinata.
Ecker, figure of the human embryo; on the development of the gyri and sulci of the brain; on the sexual differences in the pelvis in man; on the presence of a sagittal crest in Australians.
Edentata, former wide range of, in America; absence of secondary sexual characters in.
Edolius, racket-shaped feathers in.
Edwards, Mr., on the proportion of the sexes in North American species of Papilio.
Eels, hermaphroditism of.
Egerton, Sir P., on the use of the antlers of deer; on the pairing of red deer; on the bellowing of stags.
Eggs, hatched by male fishes.
Egret, Indian, sexes and young of.
Egrets, breeding plumage of; white.
Ehrenberg, on the mane of the male Hamadryas baboon.
Ekstrom, M., on Harelda glacialis.
Elachista rufocinerea, habits of male.
Eland, development of the horns of the.
Elands, sexual differences of colour in.
Elaphomyia, sexual differences in.
Elaphrus uliginosus, stridulation of.
Elaps.
Elateridae, proportion of the sexes in.
Elaters, luminous.
Elephant, rate of increase of the; nakedness of the; using a fan; Indian, forbearance to his keeper; polygamous habits of the; pugnacity of the male; tusks of; Indian, mode of fighting of the; male, odour emitted by the; attacking white or grey horses.
Elevation of abode, modifying influence of.
Elimination of inferior individuals.
Elk, winter change of the.
Elk, Irish, horns of the.
Ellice Islands, beards of the natives.
Elliot, D.G., on Pelecanus erythrorhynchus.
Elliot, R., on the numerical proportion of the sexes in young rats; on the proportion of the sexes in sheep.
Elliot, Sir W., on the polygamous habits of the Indian wild boar.
Ellis, on the prevalence of infanticide in Polynesia.
Elphinstone, Mr., on local difference of stature among the Hindoos; on the difficulty of distinguishing the native races of India.
Elytra, of the females of Dytiscus Acilius, Hydroporus.
Emberiza, characters of young.
Emberiza miliaria.
Emberiza schoeniclus, head-feathers of the male.
Embryo of man; of the dog.
Embryos of mammals, resemblance of the.
Emigration.
Emotions experienced by the lower animals in common with man; manifested by animals.
Emperor butterfly.
Emperor moth.
Emu, sexes and incubation of.
Emulation of singing birds.
Endurance, estimation of.
Energy, a characteristic of men.
England, numerical proportion of male and female births in.
Engleheart, Mr., on the finding of new mates by starlings.
English, success of, as colonists.
Engravers, short-sighted.
Entomostraca.
Entozoa, difference of colour between the males and females of some.
Environment, direct action of the, in causing differences between the sexes.
Envy, persistence of.
Eocene period, possible divergence of men during the.
Eolidae, colours of, produced by the biliary glands.
Epeira nigra, small size of the male of.
Ephemerae.
Ephemeridae.
Ephippiger vitium, stridulating organs of.
Epicalia, sexual differences of colouring in the species of.
Equus hemionus, winter change of.
Erateina, coloration of.
Ercolani, Prof., hermaphroditism in eels.
Erect attitude of man.
Eristalis, courting of.
Eschricht, on the development of hair in man; on a languinous moustache in a female foetus; on the want of definition between the scalp and the forehead in some children; on the arrangement of the hair in the human foetus; on the hairiness of the face in the human foetus of both sexes.
Esmeralda, difference of colour in the sexes of.
Esox lucius.
Esox reticulatus.
Esquimaux, their belief in the inheritance of dexterity in seal-catching; mode of life of.
Estrelda amandava, pugnacity of the male.
Eubagis, sexual differences of colouring in the species of.
Euchirus longimanus, sound produced by.
Eudromias morinellus.
Eulampis jugularis, colours of the female.
Euler, on the rate of increase in the United States.
Eunomota superciliaris, racket-shaped feathers in the tail of.
Eupetomena macroura, colours of the female.
Euphema splendida.
Euplocamus erythrophthalmus, possession of spurs by the female.
Europe, ancient inhabitants of.
Europeans, difference of, from Hindoos; hairiness of, probably due to reversion.
Eurostopodus, sexes of.
Eurygnathus, different proportions of the head in the sexes of.
Eustephanus, sexual differences of species of; young of.
Exaggeration of natural characters by man.
Exogamy.
Experience, acquisition of, by animals.
Expression, resemblances in, between man and the apes.
Extinction of races, causes of.
Eye, destruction of the; change of position in; obliquity of, regarded as a beauty by the Chinese and Japanese.
Eyebrows, elevation of; development of long hairs in; in monkeys; eradicated in parts of South America and Africa; eradication of, by the Indians of Paraguay.
Eyelashes, eradication of, by the Indians of Paraguay.
Eyelids, coloured black, in part of Africa.
Eyes, pillared, of the male of Chloeon; difference in the colour of, in the sexes of birds.
Eyton, T.C., observations on the development of the horns in the fallow deer.
Eyzies, Les, human remains from.
Fabre, M., on the habits of Cerceris.
Facial bones, causes of modification of the.
Faculties, diversity of, in the same race of men; inheritance of; diversity of, in animals of the same species; mental variation of, in the same species; of birds.
Fakirs, Indian, tortures undergone by.
Falco leucocephalus.
Falco peregrinus.
Falco tinnunclus.
Falcon, peregrine, new mate found by.
Falconer, H., on the mode of fighting of the Indian elephant; on canines in a female deer; on Hyomoschus aquaticus.
Falkland Islands, horses of.
Fallow-deer, different coloured herds of.
Famines, frequency of, among savages.
Farr, Dr., on the effects of profligacy; on the influence of marriage on mortality.
Farrar, F.W., on the origin of language; on the crossing or blending of languages; on the absence of the idea of God in certain races of men; on early marriages of the poor; on the middle ages.
Farre, Dr., on the structure of the uterus.
Fashions, long prevalence of, among savages.
Faye, Prof., on the numerical proportion of male and female births in Norway and Russia; on the greater mortality of male children at and before birth.
Feathers, modified, producing sounds; elongated, in male birds; racket-shaped; barbless and with filamentous barbs in certain birds; shedding of margins of.
Feeding, high, probable influence of, in the pairing of birds of different species.
Feet, thickening of the skin on the soles of the; modification of, in man.
Felis canadensis, throat-ruff of.
Felis pardalis and F. mitis, sexual difference in the colouring of.
Female, behaviour of the, during courtship.
Female birds, differences of.
Females, presence of rudimentary male organs in; preference of, for certain males; pursuit of, by males; occurrence of secondary sexual characters in; development of male character by.
Females and males, comparative numbers of; comparative mortality of, while young.
Femur and tibia, proportions of, in the Aymara Indians.
Fenton, Mr., decrease of Maories; infanticide amongst the Maories.
Ferguson, Mr., on the courtship of fowls.
Fertilisation, phenomena of, in plants; in the lower animals.
Fertility lessened under changed conditions.
Fevers, immunity of Negroes and Mulattoes from.
Fiber zibethicus, protective colouring of it.
Fick, H., effect of conscription for military service.
Fidelity, in the elephant; of savages to one another; importance of.
Field-slaves, difference of, from house-slaves.
Fiji Archipelago, population of the.
Fiji Islands, beards of the natives; marriage-customs of the.
Fijians, burying their old and sick parents alive; estimation of the beard among the; admiration of, for a broad occiput.
Filial affection, partly the result of natural selection.
Filum terminale.
Finch, racket-shaped feathers in the tail of a.
Finches, spring change of colour in; British, females of the.
Fingers, partially coherent, in species of Hylobates.
Finlayson, on the Cochin Chinese.
Fire, use of.
Fischer, on the pugnacity of the male of Lethrus cephalotes.
Fischer, F. Von, on display of brightly coloured parts by monkeys in courtship.
Fish, eagerness of male; proportion of the sexes in; sounds produced by.
Fishes, kidneys of, represented by Corpora Wolffiana in the human embryo; male, hatching ova in their mouths; receptacles for ova possessed by; relative size of the sexes in; fresh-water, of the tropics; protective resemblances in; change of colour in; nest-building; spawning of; sounds produced by; continued growth of.
Flamingo, age of mature plumage.
Flexor pollicis longus, similar variation of, in man.
Flies, humming of.
Flint tools.
Flints, difficulty of chipping into form.
Florida, Quiscalus major in.
Florisuga mellivora.
Flounder, coloration of the.
Flower, W.H., on the abductor of the fifth metatarsal in apes; on the position of the Seals; on the Pithecia monachu; on the throat-pouch of the male bustard.
Fly-catchers, colours and nidification of.
Foetus, human, woolly covering of the; arrangement of the hair on.
Food, influence of, upon stature.
Foot, prehensile power of the, retained in some savages; prehensile, in the early progenitors of man.
Foramen, supra-condyloid, exceptional occurrence of in the humerus of man; in the early progenitors of man.
Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians; on local variation of colour in the Quichuas; on the hairlessness of the Aymaras and Quichuas; on the long hair of the Aymaras and Quichaus.
Forel, F., on white young swans.
Forester, Hon. O.W., on an orphan hawk.
Formica rufa, size of the cerebral ganglia in.
Fossils, absence of, connecting man with the apes.
Fowl, occurrence of spurs in the female; game, early pugnacity of; Polish, early development of cranial peculiarities of; variations in plumage of; examples of correlated development in the; domestic, breeds and sub-breeds of.
Fowls, spangled Hamburg; inheritance of changes of plumage by; sexual peculiarities in, transmitted only to the same sex; loss of secondary sexual characters by male; Polish, origin of the crest in; period of inheritance of characters by; cuckoo-; development of the comb in; numerical proportion of the sexes in; courtship of; mongrel, between a black Spanish cock and different hens; pencilled Hamburg, difference of the sexes in; Spanish, sexual differences of the comb in; spurred, in both sexes.
Fox, W.D., on some half-tamed wild ducks becoming polygamous, and on polygamy in the guinea-fowl and canary-bird; on the proportion of the sexes in cattle; on the pugnacity of the peacock; on a nuptial assembly of magpies; on the finding of new mates by crows; on partridges living in triplets; on the pairing of a goose with a Chinese gander.
Foxes, wariness of young, in hunting districts; black.
Fraser, C., on the different colours of the sexes in a species of Squilla.
Fraser, G., colours of Thecla.
Frere, Hookham, quoting Theognis on selection in mankind.
Fringilla cannabina.
Fringilla ciris, age of mature plumage in.
Fringilla cyanea, age of mature plumage in.
Fringilla leucophrys, young of.
Fringilla spinus.
Fringilla tristis, change of colour in, in spring; young of.
Fringillidae, resemblance of the females of distinct species of.
Frog, bright coloured and distasteful to birds.
Frogs, male; temporary receptacles for ova possessed by; ready to breed before the females; fighting of; vocal organs of.
Frontal bone, persistence of the suture in.
Fruits, poisonous, avoided by animals.
Fuegians, difference of stature among the; power of sight in the; skill of, in stone-throwing; resistance of the, to their severe climate; mental capacity of the; quasi-religious sentiments of the; resemblance of, in mental characters, to Europeans; mode of life of the; aversion of, to hair on the face; said to admire European women.
Fulgoridae, songs of the.
Fur, whiteness of, in Arctic animals in winter.
Fur-bearing animals, acquired sagacity of.
Gallicrex, sexual difference in the colour of the irides in.
Gallicrex cristatus, pugnacity of male; red carbuncle occurring in the male during the breeding-season.
Gallinaceae, frequency of polygamous habits and of sexual differences in the; love-gestures of; decomposed feathers in; stripes of young; comparative sexual differences between the species of; plumage of.
Gallinaceous birds, weapons of the male; racket-shaped feathers on the heads of.
Gallinula chloropus, pugnacity of the male.
Galloperdix, spurs of; development of spurs in the female.
Gallophasis, young of.
Galls.
Gallus bankiva, neck-hackles of.
Gallus Stanleyi, pugnacity of the male.
Galton, Mr., on hereditary genius; gregariousness and independence in animals; on the struggle between the social and personal impulses; on the effects of natural selection on civilised nations; on the sterility of sole daughters; on the degree of fertility of people of genius; on the early marriages of the poor; on the ancient Greeks; on the Middle Ages; on the progress of the United States; on South African notions of beauty.
Gammarus, use of the chelae of.
Gammarus marinus.
Gannets, white only when mature.
Ganoid fishes.
Gaour, horns of the.
Gap between man and the apes.
Gaper, sexes and young of.
Gardner, on an example of rationality in a Gelasimus.
Garrulus glandarius.
Gartner, on sterility of hybrid plants.
Gasteropoda, pulmoniferous, courtship of.
Gasterosteus, nidification of.
Gasterosteus leiurus.
Gasterosteus trachurus.
Gastrophora, wings of, brightly coloured beneath.
Gauchos, want of humanity among the.
Gaudry, M., on a fossil monkey.
Gavia, seasonal change of plumage in.
Geese, clanging noise made by; pairing of different species of; Canada, selection of mates by.
Gegenbaur, C., on the number of digits in the Ichthyopterygia; on the hermaphroditism of the remote progenitors of the vertebrata; two types of nipple in mammals.
Gelasimus, proportions of the sexes in a species of; use of the enlarged chelae of the male; pugnacity of males of; rational actions of a; difference of colour in the sexes of a species of.
Gemmules, dormant in one sex.
Genius, hereditary.
Genius, fertility of men and women of.
Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid., on the recognition of women by male quadrumana; on monstrosities; coincidences of arrested development with polydactylism; on animal-like anomalies in the human structure; on the correlation of monstrosities; on the distribution of hair in man and monkeys; on the caudal vertebrae of monkeys; on correlated variability; on the classification of man; on the long hair on the heads of species of Semnopithecus; on the hair in monkeys; on the development of horns in female deer; and F. Cuvier, on the mandrill; on Hylobates.
Geographical distribution, as evidence of specific distinctions in man.
Geometrae, brightly coloured beneath.
Geophagus, frontal protuberance of, male; eggs hatched by the male, in the mouth or branchial cavity.
Georgia, change of colour in Germans settled in.
Geotrupes, stridulation of.
Gerbe, M., on the nest-building of Crenilabus massa and C. Melops.
Gerland, Dr., on the prevalence of infanticide; on the extinction of races.
Gervais, P., on the hairiness of the gorilla; on the mandrill.
Gesture-language.
Ghost-moth, sexual difference of colour in the.
Giard, M., disputes descent of vertebrates from Ascidians; colour of sponges and Ascidians; musky odour of Sphinx.
Gibbon, voice of.
Gibbon, Hoolock, nose of.
Gibbs, Sir D., on differences of the voice in different races of men.
Gill, Dr., male seals larger than females; sexual differences in seals.
Giraffe, its mode of using the horns; mute, except in the rutting season.
Giraud-Teulon, on the cause of short sight.
Glanders, communicable to man from the lower animals.
Glands, odoriferous, in mammals.
Glareola, double moult in.
Glomeris limbata, difference of colour in the sexes of.
Glow-worm, female, apterous; luminosity of the.
Gnats, dances of; auditory powers of.
Gnu, skeletons of, found locked together; sexual differences in colour of the.
Goat, male, wild, falling on his horns; male, odour emitted by; male, wild, crest of the; Berbura, mane, dewlap, etc., of the male; Kemas, sexual difference in the colour of the.
Goats, sexual differences in the horns of; horns of; mode of fighting of; domestic, sexual differences of, late developed; beards of.
Goatsucker, Virginian, pairing of the.
Gobies, nidification of.
God, want of the idea of, in some races of men.
Godron, M., on variability; on difference of stature; on the want of connexion between climate and the colour of the skin; on the colour of the skin; on the colour of infants.
Goldfinch, proportion of the sexes in the; sexual differences of the beak in the; courtship of the.
Goldfinch, North American, young of.
Goldfish.
Gomphus, proportions of the sexes in; difference in the sexes of.
Gonepteryx Rhamni, sexual difference of colour in.
Goodsir, Prof., on the affinity of the lancelet to the ascidians.
Goosander, young of.
Goose, Antarctic, colours of the.
Goose, Canada, pairing with a Bernicle gander.
Goose, Chinese, knob on the beak of the.
Goose, Egyptian.
Goose, Sebastopol, plumage of.
Goose, Snow-, whiteness of the.
Goose, Spur-winged.
Gorilla, semi-erect attitude of the; mastoid processes of the; protecting himself from rain with his hands; manner of sitting; supposed to be a kind of mandrill; polygamy of the; voice of the; cranium of; fighting of male.
Gosse, P.H., on the pugnacity of the male Humming-bird.
Gosse, M., on the inheritance of artificial modifications of the skull.
Gould, B.A., on variation in the length of the legs in man; measurements of American soldiers; on the proportions of the body and capacity of the lungs in different races of men; on the inferior vitality of mulattoes.
Gould, J., on migration of swifts; on the arrival of male snipes before the females; on the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds; on Neomorpha Grypus; on the species of Eustephanus; on the Australian musk-duck; on the relative size of the sexes in Briziura lobata and Cincloramphus cruralis; on Lobivanellus lobatus; on habits of Menura Alberti; on the rarity of song in brilliant birds; on Selasphorus platycerus; on the Bower-birds; on the ornamental plumage of the Humming-birds; on the moulting of the ptarmigan; on the display of plumage by the male Humming-birds; on the shyness of adorned male birds; on the decoration of the bowers of Bower-birds; on the decoration of their nest by Humming-birds; on variation in the genus Cynanthus; on the colour of the thighs in a male parrakeet; on Urosticte Benjamini; on the nidification of the Orioles; on obscurely-coloured birds building concealed nests; on trogons and king-fishers; on Australian parrots; on Australian pigeons; on the moulting of the ptarmigan; on the immature plumage of birds; on the Australian species of Turnix; on the young of Aithurus polytmus; on the colours of the bills of toucans; on the relative size of the sexes in the marsupials of Australia; on the colours of the Marsupials.
Goureaux, on the stridulation of Mutilla europaea.
Gout, sexually transmitted.
Graba, on the Pied Ravens of the Feroe Islands; variety of the Guillemot.
Gradation of secondary sexual characters in birds.
Grallatores, absence of secondary sexual characters in; double moult in some.
Grallina, nidification of.
Grasshoppers, stridulation of the.
Gratiolet, Prof., on the anthropomorphous apes; on the evolution of the anthropomorphous apes; on the difference in the development of the brains of apes and of man.
Gray, Asa, on the gradation of species among the Compositae.
Gray, J.E., on the caudal vertebrae of monkeys; on the presence of rudiments of horns in the female of Cervulus moschatus; on the horns of goats and sheep; on crests of male antelopes; on the beard of the ibex; on the Berbura goat; on sexual differences in the coloration of Rodents; ornaments of male sloth; on the colours of the Elands; on the Sing-sing antelope; on the colours of goats; on Lemur Macaco; on the hog-deer.
“Greatest happiness principle.”
Greeks, ancient.
Green, A.H., on beavers fighting; on the voice of the beaver.
Greenfinch, selected by a female canary.
Greg, W.R., on the effects of natural selection on civilised nations; on the early marriages of the poor; on the Ancient Greeks.
Grenadiers, Prussian.
Greyhounds, numerical proportion of the sexes in; numerical proportion of male and female births in.
Grouse, red, monogamous; pugnacity of young male; producing a sound by beating their wings together; duration of courtship of; colours and nidification of.
Gruber, Dr., on the occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man; on division of malar bone; stridulation of locust; on ephippiger.
Grus americanus, age of mature plumage in; breeding in immature plumage.
Grus virgo, trachea of.
Gryllus campestris, pugnacity of male.
Gryllus domesticus.
Grypus, sexual differences in the beak in.
Guanacoes, battles of; canine teeth of.
Guanas, strife for women among the; polyandry among the.
Guanche skeletons, occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of.
Guaranys, proportion of men and women among; colour of new-born children of the; beards of the.
Guenee, A., on the sexes of Hyperythra.
Guilding, L., on the stridulation of the Locustidae.
Guillemot, variety of the.
Guinea, sheep of, with males only horned.
Guinea-fowl, monogamous; occasional polygamy of the; markings of the.
Guinea-pigs, inheritance of the effects of operations by.
Gulls, seasonal change of plumage in; white.
Gunther, Dr., on paddle of Ceradotus; on hermaphroditism in Serranus; on male fishes hatching ova in their mouths; on mistaking infertile female fishes for males; on the prehensile organs of male Plagiostomous fishes; spines and brushes on fishes; on the pugnacity of the male salmon and trout; on the relative size of the sexes in fishes; on sexual differences in fishes; on the genus Callionymus; on a protective resemblance of a pipe-fish; on the genus Solenostoma; on the coloration of frogs and toads; combat of Testudo elegans; on the sexual differences in the Ophidia; on differences of the sexes of lizards.
Gynanisa Isis, ocellated spots of.
Gypsies, uniformity of, in various parts of the world.
Habits, bad, facilitated by familiarity; variability of the force of.
Haeckel, E., on the origin of man; on rudimentary characters; on death caused by inflammation of the vermiform appendage; on the canine teeth in man; on the steps by which man became a biped; on man as a member of the Catarrhine group; on the position of the Lemuridae; on the genealogy of the Mammalia; on the lancelet; on the transparency of pelagic animals; on the musical powers of women.
Hagen, H., and Walsh, B.D., on American Neuroptera.
Hair, development of, in man; character of, supposed to be determined by light and heat; distribution of, in man; possibly removed for ornamental purposes; arrangement and direction of; of the early progenitors of man; different texture of, in distinct races; and skin, correlation of colour of; development of, in mammals; management of, among different peoples; great length of, in some North American tribes; elongation of the, on the human head; possible inherited effect of plucking out.
Hairiness, difference of, in the sexes in man; variation of, in races of men.
Hairs and excretory pores, numerical relation of, in sheep.
Hairy family, Siamese.
Halbertsma, Prof., hermaphroditism in Serranus.
Hamadryas baboon, turning over stones; mane of the male.
Hamilton, C., on the cruelty of the Kaffirs to animals; on the engrossment of the women by the Kaffir chiefs.
Hammering, difficulty of.
Hancock, A., on the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca.
Hands, larger at birth, in the children of labourers; structure of, in the quadrumana; and arms, freedom of, indirectly correlated with diminution of canines.
Handwriting, inherited.
Handyside, Dr., supernumerary mammae in men.
Harcourt, E. Vernon, on Fringilla cannabina.
Hare, protective colouring of the.
Harelda glacialis.
Hares, battles of male.
Harlan, Dr., on the difference between field-and house-slaves.
Harris, J.M., on the relation of complexion to climate.
Harris, T.W., on the Katy-did locust; on the stridulation of the grasshoppers; on Oecanthus nivalis; on the colouring of Lepidoptera; on the colouring of Saturnia Io.
Harting, spur of the Ornithorhynchus.
Hartman, Dr., on the singing of Cicada septendecim.
Hatred, persistence of.
Haughton, S., on a variation of the flexor pollicis longus in man.
Hawks, feeding orphan nestling.
Hayes, Dr., on the diverging of sledge-dogs on thin ice.
Haymond, R., on the drumming of the male Tetrao umbellus; on the drumming of birds.
Head, altered position of, to suit the erect attitude of man; hairiness of, in man; processes of, in male beetles; artificial alterations of the form of the.
Hearne, on strife for women among the North American Indians; on the North American Indians’ notion of female beauty; repeated elopements of a North American woman.
Heart, in the human embryo.
Heat, supposed effects of.
Hectocotyle.
Hedge-warbler, young of the.
Heel, small projection of, in the Aymara Indians.
Hegt, M., on the development of the spurs in peacocks.
Heliconidae, mimicry of, by other butterflies.
Heliopathes, stridulation peculiar to the male.
Heliothrix auriculata, young of.
Helix pomatia, example of individual attachment in.
Hellins, J., proportions of sexes of Lepidoptera reared by.
Helmholtz, on pleasure derived from harmonies; on the human eye; on the vibration of the auditory hairs of crustacea; the physiology of harmony.
Hemiptera.
Hemitragus, beardless in both sexes.
Hemsbach, M. von, on medial mamma in man.
Hen, clucking of.
Hepburn, Mr., on the autumn song of the water-ouzel.
Hepialus humuli, sexual difference of colour in the.
Herbs, poisonous, avoided by animals.
Hermaphroditism, of embryos; in fishes.
Herodias bubulcus, vernal moult of.
Heron, Sir R., on the habits of peafowl.
Herons, love-gestures of; decomposed feathers in; breeding plumage of; young of the; sometimes dimorphic; continued growth of crest and plumes in the males of some; change of colour in some.
Hesperomys cognatus.
Hetaerina, proportion of the sexes in; difference in the sexes of.
Heterocerus, stridulation of.
Hewitt, Mr., on a game-cock killing a kite; on the recognition of dogs and cats by ducks; on the pairing of a wild duck with a pintail drake; on the courtship of fowls; on the coupling of pheasants with common hens.
Hilgendorf, sounds produced by crustaceans.
Hindoo, his horror of breaking his caste.
Hindoos, local difference of stature among; difference of, from Europeans; colour of the beard in.
Hipparchia Janira, instability of the ocellated spots of.
Hippocampus, development of; marsupial receptacles of the male.
Hippocampus minor.
Hippopotamus, nakedness of.
Hips, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors.
Hodgson, S., on the sense of duty.
Hoffberg, on the horns of the reindeer; on sexual preferences shewn by reindeer.
Hoffman, Prof., protective colours; fighting of frogs.
Hog, wart-; river-.
Hog-deer.
Holland, Sir H., on the effects of new diseases.
Homologous structures, correlated variation of.
Homoptera, stridulation of the, and Orthoptera, discussed.
Honduras, Quiscalus major in.
Honey-buzzard of India, variation in the crest of.
Honey-sucker, females and young of.
Honey-suckers, moulting of the; Australian, nidification of.
Honour, law of.
Hooker, Dr., forbearance of elephant to his keeper; on the colour of the beard in man.
Hookham, Mr., on mental concepts in animals.
Hoolock Gibbon, nose of.
Hoopoe, sounds produced by male.
Hoplopterus armatus, wing-spurs of.
Hornbill, African, inflation of the neck-wattle of the male during courtship.
Hornbills, sexual difference in the colour of the eyes in; nidification and incubation of.
Horne, C., on the rejection of a brightly-coloured locust by lizards and birds.
Horns, sexual differences of, in sheep and goats; loss of, in female merino sheep; development of, in deer; development in antelopes; from the head and thorax, in male beetles; of deer; originally a masculine character in sheep; and canine teeth, inverse development of.
Horse, fossil, extinction of the, in South America; polygamous; canine teeth of male; winter change of colour.
Horses, rapid increase of, in South America; diminution of canine teeth in; dreaming; of the Falkland Islands and Pampas; numerical proportion of the sexes, in; lighter in winter in Siberia; sexual preferences in; pairing preferently with those of the same colour; numerical proportion of male and female births in; formerly striped.
Hottentot women, peculiarities of.
Hottentots, lice of; readily become musicians; notions of female beauty of the; compression of nose by.
Hough, Dr. S., men’s temperature more variable than women’s; proportion of sexes in man.
House-slaves, difference of, from field-slaves.
Houzeau, on the baying of the dog; on reason in dogs; birds killed by telegraph wires; on the cries of domestic fowls and parrots; animals feel no pity; suicide in the Aleutian Islands.
Howorth, H.H., extinction of savages.
Huber, P., on ants playing together; on memory in ants; on the intercommunication of ants; on the recognition of each other by ants after separation.
Huc, on Chinese opinions of the appearance of Europeans.
Huia, the, of New Zealand.
Human, man, classed alone in a kingdom.
Human sacrifices.
Humanity, unknown among some savages; deficiency of, among savages.
Humboldt, A. von, on the rationality of mules; on a parrot preserving the language of a lost tribe; on the cosmetic arts of savages; on the exaggeration of natural characters by man; on the red painting of American Indians.
Hume, D., on sympathetic feelings.
Humming-bird, racket-shaped feathers in the tail of a; display of plumage by the male.
Humming-birds, ornament their nests; polygamous; proportion of the sexes in; sexual differences in; pugnacity of male; modified primaries of male; coloration of the sexes of; display by; nidification of the; colours of female; young of.
Humour, sense of, in dogs.
Humphreys, H.N., on the habits of the stickleback.
Hunger, instinct of.
Huns, ancient, flattening of the nose by the.
Hunter, J., on the number of species of man; on secondary sexual characters; on the general behaviour of female animals during courtship; on the muscles of the larynx in song-birds; on strength of males; on the curled frontal hair of the bull; on the rejection of an ass by a female zebra.
Hunter, W.W., on the recent rapid increase of the Santali; on the Santali.
Huss, Dr. Max, on mammary glands.
Hussey, Mr., on a partridge distinguishing persons.
Hutchinson, Col., example of reasoning in a retriever.
Hutton, Captain, on the male wild goat falling on his horns.
Huxley, T.H., on the structural agreement of man with the apes; on the agreement of the brain in man with that of lower animals; on the adult age of the orang; on the embryonic development of man; on the origin of man; on variation in the skulls of the natives of Australia; on the abductor of the fifth metatarsal in apes; on the nature of the reasoning power; on the position of man; on the suborders of primates; on the Lemuridae; on the Dinosauria; on the amphibian affinities of the Ichthyosaurians; on variability of the skull in certain races of man; on the races of man; Supplement on the brain.
Hybrid birds, production of.
Hydrophobia, communicable between man and the lower animals.
Hydroporus, dimorphism of females of.
Hyelaphus porcinus.
Hygrogonus.
Hyla, singing species of.
Hylobates, absence of the thumb in; upright progression of some species of; maternal affection in a; direction of the hair on the arms of species of; females of, less hairy below than males.
Hylobates agilis, hair on the arms of; musical voice of the; superciliary ridge of; voice of.
Hylobates hoolock, sexual difference of colour in.
Hylobates lar, hair on the arms of; female less hairy.
Hylobates leuciscus, song of.
Hylobates syndactylus, laryngeal sac of.
Hylophila prasinana.
Hymenoptera, large size of the cerebral ganglia in; classification of; sexual differences in the wings of; aculeate, relative size of the sexes of.
Hymenopteron, parasitic, with a sedentary male.
Hyomoschus aquaticus.
Hyperythra, proportion of the sexes in.
Hypogymna dispar, sexual difference of colour in.
Hypopyra, coloration of.
Ibex, male, falling on his horns; beard of the.
Ibis, white, change of colour of naked skin in, during the breeding season; scarlet, young of the.
Ibis tantalus, age of mature plumage in; breeding in immature plumage.
Ibises, decomposed feathers in; white; and black.
Ichneumonidae, difference of the sexes in.
Ichthyopterygia.
Ichthyosaurians.
Idiots, microcephalous, their characters and habits; hairiness and animal nature of their actions; microcephalous, imitative faculties of.
Iguana tuberculata.
Iguanas.
Illegitimate and legitimate children, proportion of the sexes in.
Imagination, existence of, in animals.
Imitation, of man by monkeys; tendency to, in monkeys, microcephalous idiots and savages; influence of.
Immature plumage of birds.
Implacentata.
Implements, employed by monkeys; fashioning of, peculiar to man.
Impregnation, period of, influence of, upon sex.
Improvement, progressive, man alone supposed to be capable of.
Incisor teeth, knocked out or filed by some savages.
Increase, rate of; necessity of checks in.
Indecency, hatred of, a modern virtue.
India, difficulty of distinguishing the native races of; Cyprinidae of; colour of the beard in races of men of.
Indian, North American, honoured for scalping a man of another tribe.
Individuality, in animals.
Indolence of man, when free from a struggle for existence.
Indopicus carlotta, colours of the sexes of.
Infanticide, prevalence of; supposed cause of; prevalence and causes of.
Inferiority, supposed physical, of man.
Inflammation of the bowels, occurrence of, in Cebus Azarae.
Inheritance, of long and short sight; of effects of use of vocal and mental organs; of moral tendencies; laws of; sexual; sexually limited.
Inquisition, influence of the.
Insanity, hereditary.
insect, fossil, from the Devonian.
Insectivora, absence of secondary sexual characters in.
Insects, relative size of the cerebral ganglia in; male, appearance of, before the females; pursuit of female, by the males; period of development of sexual characters in; secondary sexual characters of; kept in cages; stridulation.
Insessores, vocal organs of.
Instep, depth of, in soldiers and sailors.
Instinct and intelligence.
Instinct, migratory, vanquishing the maternal.
Instinctive actions, the result of inheritance.
Instinctive impulses, difference of the force; and moral impulses, alliance of.
Instincts, complex origin of, through natural selection; possible origin of some; acquired, of domestic animals; variability of the force of; difference of force between the social and other; utilised for new purposes.
Instrumental music of birds.
Intellect, influence of, in natural selection in civilised society.
Intellectual faculties, their influence on natural selection in man; probably perfected through natural selection.
Intelligence, Mr. H. Spencer on the dawn of.
Intemperance, no reproach among savages; its destructiveness.
Intoxication in monkeys.
Iphias glaucippe.
Iris, sexual difference in the colour of the, in birds.
Ischio-pubic muscle.
Ithaginis cruentus, number of spurs in.
Iulus, tarsal suckers of the males of.
Jackals learning from dogs to bark.
Jack-snipe, coloration of the.
Jacquinot, on the number of species of man.
Jaeger, Dr., length of bones increased from carrying weights; on the difficulty of approaching herds of wild animals; male Silver-pheasant, rejected when his plumage was spoilt.
Jaguars, black.
Janson, E.W., on the proportions of the sexes in Tomicus villosus; on stridulant beetles.
Japan, encouragement of licentiousness in.
Japanese, general beardlessness of the; aversion of the, to whiskers.
Jardine, Sir W., on the Argus pheasant.
Jarrold, Dr., on modifications of the skull induced by unnatural position.
Jarves, Mr., on infanticide in the Sandwich Islands.
Javans, relative height of the sexes of; notions of female beauty.
Jaw, influence of the muscles of the, upon the physiognomy of the apes.
Jaws, smaller proportionately to the extremities; influence of food upon the size of; diminution of, in man; in man, reduced by correlation.
Jay, young of the; Canada, young of the.
Jays, new mates found by; distinguishing persons.
Jeffreys, J. Gwyn, on the form of the shell in the sexes of the Gasteropoda; on the influence of light upon the colours of shells.
Jelly-fish, bright colours of some.
Jenner, Dr., on the voice of the rook; on the finding of new mates by magpies; on retardation of the generative functions in birds.
Jenyns, L., on the desertion of their young by swallows; on male birds singing after the proper season.
Jerdon, Dr., on birds dreaming; on the pugnacity of the male bulbul; on the pugnacity of the male Ortygornis gularis; on the spurs of Galloperdix; on the habits of Lobivanellus; on the spoonbill; on the drumming of the Kalij-pheasant; on Indian bustards; on Otis bengalensis; on the ear-tufts of Sypheotides auritus; on the double moults of certain birds; on the moulting of the honeysuckers; on the moulting of bustards, plovers, and drongos; on the spring change of colour in some finches; on display in male birds; on the display of the under-tail coverts by the male bulbul; on the Indian honey-buzzard; on sexual differences in the colour of the eyes of hornbills; on the markings of the Tragopan pheasant; on the nidification of the Orioles; on the nidification of the hornbills; on the Sultan yellow-tit; on Palaeornis javanicus; on the immature plumage of birds; on representative species of birds; on the habits of Turnix; on the continued increase of beauty of the peacock; on coloration in the genus Palaeornis.
Jevons, W.S., on the migrations of man.
Jews, ancient use of flint tools by the; uniformity of, in various parts of the world; numerical proportion of male and female births among the; ancient, tattooing practised by.
Johnstone, Lieut., on the Indian elephant.
Jollofs, fine appearance of the.
Jones, Albert, proportion of sexes of Lepidoptera, reared by.
Juan Fernandez, humming-birds of.
Junonia, sexual differences of colouring in species of.
Jupiter, comparison with Assyrian effigies.
Kaffir skull, occurrence of the diastema in a.
Kaffirs, their cruelty to animals; lice of the; colour of the; engrossment of the handsomest women by the chiefs of the; marriage-customs of the.
Kalij-pheasant, drumming of the male; young of.
Kallima, resemblance of, to a withered leaf.
Kulmucks, general beardlessness of; aversion of, to hairs on the face; marriage-customs of the.
Kangaroo, great red, sexual difference in the colour of.
Kant, Imm., on duty; on self-restraint; on the number of species of man.
Katy-did, stridulation of the.
Keen, Dr., on the mental powers of snakes.
Keller, Dr., on the difficulty of fashioning stone implements.
Kent, W.S., elongation of dorsal fin of Callionymus lyra; courtship of Labrus mixtus; colours and courtship of Cantharus lineatus.
Kestrels, new mates found by.
Kidney, one, doing double work in disease.
King, W.R., on the vocal organs of Tetrao cupido; on the drumming of grouse; on the reindeer; on the attraction of male deer by the voice of the female.
King and Fitzroy, on the marriage-customs of the Fuegians.
King-crows, nidification of.
Kingfisher, racket-shaped feathers in the tail of a.
Kingfishers, colours and nidification of the; immature plumage of the; young of the.
King Lory, immature plumage of the.
Kingsley, C., on the sounds produced by the Umbrina.
Kirby and Spence, on sexual differences in the length of the snout in Curculionidae; on the courtship of insects; on the elytra of Dytiscus; on peculiarities in the legs of male insects; on the relative size of the sexes in insects; on the Fulgoridae; on the habits of the Termites; on difference of colour in the sexes of beetles; on the horns of the male lamellicorn beetles; on hornlike processes in male Curculionidae; on the pugnacity of the male stag-beetle.
Kite, killed by a game-cock.
Knot, retention of winter plumage by the.
Knox, R., on the semilunar fold; on the occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man; on the features of the young Memmon.
Koala, length of the caecum in.
Kobus ellipsiprymnus, proportion of the sexes in.
Kolreuter, on the sterility of hybrid plants.
Koodoo, development of the horns of the; markings of the.
Koppen, F.T., on the migratory locust.
Koraks, marriage customs of.
Kordofan, protuberances artificially produced by natives of.
Korte, on the proportion of sexes in locusts; Russian locusts.
Kovalevsky, A., on the affinity of the Ascidia to the Vertebrata.
Kovalevsky, W., on the pugnacity of the male capercailzie; on the pairing of the capercailzie.
Krause, on a convoluted body at the extremity of the tail in a Macacus and a cat.
Kupffer, Prof., on the affinity of the Ascidia to the Vertebrata.
Labidocera Darwinii, prehensile organs of the male.
Labrus, splendid colours of the species of.
Labrus mixtus, sexual differences in.
Labrus pavo.
Lacertilia, sexual differences of.
Lafresnaye, M. de, on birds of paradise.
Lamarck, on the origin of man.
Lamellibranchiata.
Lamellicorn beetles, horn-like processes from the head and thorax of; influence of sexual selection on.
Lamellicornia, stridulation of.
Lamont, Mr., on the tusks of the walrus; on the use of its tusks by the walrus; on the bladder-nose seal.
Lampornis porphyrurus, colours of the female.
Lampyridae, distasteful to mammals.
Lancelet.
Landois, H., gnats attracted by sound; on the production of sound by the Cicadae; on the stridulating organ of the crickets; on Decticus; on the stridulating organs of the Acridiidae; stridulating apparatus, in Orthoptera; on the stridulation of Necrophorus; on the stridulant organ of Cerambyx heros; on the stridulant organ of Geotrupes; on the stridulating organs in the Coleoptera; on the ticking of Anobium.
Landor, Dr., on remorse for not obeying tribal custom.
Language, an art; articulate, origin of; relation of the progress of, to the development of the brain; effects of inheritance in production of; complex structure of, among barbarous nations; natural selection in; gesture; primeval; of a lost tribe preserved by a parrot.
Languages, presence of rudiments in; classification of; variability of; crossing or blending of; complexity of, no test of perfection or proof of special creation; resemblance of, evidence of community of origin.
Languages and species, identity of evidence of their gradual development.
Lanius, characters of young.
Lanius rufus, anomalous young of.
Lankester, E.R., on comparative longevity; on the destructive effects of intemperance.
Lanugo of the human foetus.
Lapponian language, highly artificial.
Lark, proportion of the sexes in the; female, singing of the.
Larks, attracted by a mirror.
Lartet, E., comparison of cranial capacities of skulls of recent and tertiary mammals; on the size of the brain in mammals; on Dryopithecus; on pre-historic flutes.
