150 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



ship, I will specify a few such points. The relative posi- 

 u tion of our features is manifestly the same ; and the vari- 

 £ ous emotions are displayed by nearly similar movements 

 of the muscles and skin, chiefly above the eyebrows and 

 round the mouth. Some few expressions are, indeed, 

 almost the same, as in the weeping of certain kinds of 

 monkeys and in the laughing noise made by others, dur- 

 ing which the corners of the mouth are drawn backward, 

 and the lower eyelids wrinkled. The external ears are 

 curiously alike. In man the nose is much more prominent 

 than in most monkeys ; but we may trace the commence- 

 ment of an aquiline curvature in the nose of the Hoolock 

 Gibbon ; and this in the Semnopithecus nasica is carried 

 to a ridiculous extreme. 



The faces of many monkeys are ornamented with 

 beards, whiskers, or mustaches. The hair on the head 

 grows to a great length in some species of Semnopithe- 

 cus ; and in the Bonnet monkey (Macacus radiatus) it 

 radiates from a point on the crown, with a parting down 

 the middle. It is commonly said that the forehead gives 

 ^ to man his noble and intellectual appearance ; but the 

 thick hair on the head of the Bonnet monkey terminates 

 downward abruptly, and is succeeded by hair so short and 

 fine that at a little distance the forehead, with the excep- 

 tion of the eyebrows, appears quite naked. It has been 

 erroneously asserted that eyebrows are not present in any 

 monkey. In the species just named the degree of naked- 

 ness of the forehead differs in different individuals ; and 

 Eschricht states that in our children the limit between 

 the hairy scalp and the naked forehead is sometimes not 

 well defined ; so that here we seem to have a trifling case 

 of reversion to a progenitor, in whom the forehead had 

 not as yet become quite naked. 

 ^ It is well known that the hair on our arms tends to 



