Charles Darwin as primatologist: A literature guide

✍ Scribed by James Loy

• Book ID: 101266288
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 52 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0275-2565
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1997)42:1<53::aid-ajp4>3.0.co;2-y

✦ Synopsis

Charles Darwin made numerous references to the nonhuman primates in support of his evolutionary thesis. Most such references are found in The Descent of Man [1871] and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [1872], but other illuminating statements are scattered throughout Darwin's notebooks, letters, and lesser-known publications. As a research aid to modern primatologists, this paper presents a very nearly complete listing of Darwin's comments on primates, indexed by topic and primate type.