Editing Inuus (section)

==Darwinian connection==
[[Charles Darwin]] used the [[Nomenclature#Scientific nomenclature|nomenclature]] ''Inuus ecaudatus'' in writing of the [[Barbary macaque]], now classified as ''Macaca sylvanus''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Darwin|first1=Charles|authorlink1=Charles Darwin|last2=Watson|first2=James D.|authorlink2=James D. Watson|title=The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LEWfWf0mUJIC&pg=PA1132|year=2005|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-2136-7}}, p. 1132</ref> [[Charles Kingsley]] wrote to Darwin in January 1862 speculating that certain mythological beings may represent cultural memories of creatures "intermediate between man & the ape" who became extinct as a result of [[natural selection]]:
{{quote|I want now to bore you on another matter. This great gulf between the [[quadrumana]] & man; & the absence of any record of species intermediate between man & the ape. It has come home to me with much force, that while ''we'' deny the existence of any such, the legends of most nations are full of them. [[Faun]]s, [[Satyr]]s, Inui, [[Elf|Elves]], [[Dwarf (mythology)|Dwarf]]s — we call them one minute mythological personages, the next conquered inferior races — & ignore the broad fact, that they are always represented as more bestial than man, & of violent sexual passion. … The Inuus of the [[Latins (Italic tribe)|old Latins]] is obscure: but his name is from ''[[wikt:inire|inire]]'' — sexual violence.<ref>{{cite book|last=Darwin|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Darwin|title=The Correspondence of Charles Darwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MqBgwX2vZIC&pg=PA63|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59032-7}}, pp. 61–63</ref>}}