The Descent of Man

een sent me, the projection is so large, that
supposing, in accordance with Prof. Meyer's
view, the ear to be made perfect by the equal
development of the cartilage throughout the
whole extent of the margin, it would have covered
fully one-third of the whole ear. Two cases
have been communicated to me, one in North
America, and the other in England, in which
the upper margin is not at all folded inwards,
but is pointed, so that it closely resembles the
pointed ear of an ordinary quadruped in outline.
In one of these cases, which was that of a
young child, the father compared the ear with
the drawing which I have given (34. 'The Expression
of the Emotions,' p. 136.) of the ear of a
monkey, the Cynopithecus niger, and says that
their outlines are closely similar. If, in these two
cases, the margin had been folded inwards in
the normal manner, an inward projection must
have been formed. I may add that in two other
cases the outline still remains somewhat pointed,
although the margin of the upper part of