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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 173 fos. 1–5
Summary:

Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.

Mentions notices in the Nation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project