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Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions?"

From Time Magazine Archive

You specify the axillae and the front region of the chest and lower part of scapulae: now, these are all hairy spots in man.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Head, antennae, and feet yellow; eyes black; the scutellum of prothorax yellow; the scutum of mesothorax black, with the scutellum yellow; the scutum of metathorax yellow, with the scutellum black, and the axillae yellow.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

At the same time she had in both axillae glandular tumors as large as the head of a fetus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The injury they do to flowers is comparatively trifling; though, like the Guinea-fowl, they are great eaters of buds, cutting them out cleanly from the axillae of leaves.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert