The Descent of Man

in the fields and are quite unclothed, it is not
likely that they differ in colour from the men
owing to less exposure to the weather. European
women are perhaps the brighter coloured
of the two sexes, as may be seen when both
have been equally exposed.
Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic
than woman, and has a more inventive
genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether
or not proportionately to his larger body,
has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In
woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the
base of the skull smaller; the outlines of the
body rounder, in parts more prominent; and
her pelvis is broader than in man (3. Ecker,
translation, in 'Anthropological Review,' Oct.
1868, pp. 351-356. The comparison of the form
of the skull in men and women has been followed
out with much care by Welcker.); but this
latter character may perhaps be considered
rather as a primary than a secondary sexual