Charles Darwin's anthropological observations on Ceylonese.
In his 1871 work, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Darwin has made three anthropological observations pertaining to the nose, beard and polygamy in Ceylonese. He never visited Ceylon, and his observations were based on the works of Sir J. Emerson Tennent (1859) and Sir J. Lubbock (1865).
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