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Authors: Charles Darwin
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Following Page 3221 Culture clash: HMS Beagle encounters Fuegians, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, as painted by Conrad Martens on the second Beagle voyage.By kind permission of Darwin Heirlooms Trust.2a Fuegian man as depicted in Robert FitzRoy's narrative of the Beagle voyage (1839).Wellcome Collection.2b The three Fuegians who were aboard the Beagle with Darwin; note the subtle differences in facial features between the "savage" and "civilized" portraits of O'run-del'lico, or Jemmy (Darwin 1839).BHL, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.3a Working on studies for Puck (1847), sculptor Thomas Woolner noted that humans and monkeys shared a projecting point along the ear's inner rim, dubbed the "Woolnerian tip" by Darwin.James T. and Leslie C. Costa, with thanks to the Tate Britain.3b Homo neanderthalensis, type specimen, as depicted in W. King (1864).

Fields of Study & Subjects

History of Science and Natural History History of Science and Medicine Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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Journal / source
Princeton University Press eBooks
Pages
vii–viii
Publication date
5 March 2026
Language
EN