 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...number. My informants all agree that but one male is seen in a band ; that when the young males grow up a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest...killing and driving out the others establishes himself at the head of the community.' One would say that the name Simia Engeena might be well replaced by... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 204 pages
...all agree in the assertion that but one adult male is seen in a band ; that when the young males grow up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest,...establishes himself as the head of the community." Dr. Savage repudiates the stories about the Gorillas carrying off women and vanquishing elephants,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...of the chimpanzee. Only one adult male is said to be seen in a band ; and when the young males grow up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest,...and driving out the others, establishes himself as head of the band. Dr. Savage says, " the silly stories about their carrying off women from the native... | |
 | William Winwood Reade - 1864 - 476 pages
...one adult male is seen in a band ; that when the young males grow up a contest takes place for the mastery, and the strongest, by killing and driving...establishes himself as the head of the community. " Their dwellings, if they may be ,so called, are similar to the chimpanzee, consisting simply of a... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 pages
...select the more attractive females, this would suffice for the work of sexual selection. Therefore, if we look far enough back in the stream of time,...establishes himself as the head of the community." " The younger males, being thus expelled and wandering about, would, when at last successful in finding... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 540 pages
...Vertebrates,' vol. iii. p. 746) on American monogamous species. Other references might be added. " killing and driving out the others, establishes himself " as the head of the community." 8 The younger males, being thus expelled and wandering about, would, when at last successful in finding... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1872 - 468 pages
...one adult male is seen in a band ; when the young male grows up, a contest takes place for masterv, and the strongest, by killing and driving out the...establishes himself as the head of the community." ' The younger males, being thus expelled and wandering about, would, when at last successful in finding... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 204 pages
...all agree in the assertion that but one adult male is seen in a band ; that when the young males grow up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest,...establishes himself as the head of the community." Dr. Savage repudiates the stories about the Gorillas carrying off women and vanquishing elephants,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1874 - 840 pages
...against all other men. Or ho may not have been a social animal, and yet have lived with several wives, like the gorilla ; for all the natives " agree that...establishes himself as the head of the " community." 10 The younger males, being thus expelled and wandering about, would, when at last successful in finding... | |
 | 1875 - 642 pages
...and women formerly entered into temporary, though strict, unions for each birth. This may have taken place, but, as the same illustrious thinker finally...the gorilla in the choice of his wives, and there ia no reason why he should not from the very earliest epoch have had that antipathy to alliance between... | |
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... agree that but one adult male " is seen in a band ; when the young male grows up, a contest " takes place for mastery, and the strongest, by killing and " driving out the others, establishes himself as the head of the 
