WITH mankind the differences between the s**es are
greater than in most species of Quadrumana, but not
so great as in some, for instance, the mandrill. Man
on an average is considerably taller, heavier, and
stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and more
plainly-pronounced muscles. Owing to the relation
which exists between muscular development and the
projection of the brows (1), the superciliary ridge is gene-
rally more strongly marked in man than in woman.
His body, and especially his face, is more hairy, and
his voice has a different and more powerful tone. In
certain tribes the women are said, whether truly I know
not, to differ slightly in tint from the men; and with
Europeans, the women are perhaps the more brightly
coloured of the two, as may be seen when both s**es
have been equally exposed to the weather.
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic
than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His
brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the
larger size of his body, in comparison with that of
woman, 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 her body rounder, in parts
more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; (2)
but this latter character may perhaps be considered
rather as a primary than a secondary s**ual character.
She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.
(1) Schaaffhausen, translation in ‘Anthropological Review,' Oct. 1868, p. 419, 420,427.
(2) Ecker, translation in ‘Anthropological Review' Oct. 1868, p. 351-
356. The comparison of the skull in men & and women has,
been followed out with much care by Welcker.