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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

By Charles Darwin

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1981
ISBN
0691082782, 9780691082783
LCC
QH365 .D2 1981
Open Library ID
OL22865421M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6803454 bytes)
Pages
961\961
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too "surrounded with prejudices." He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by "sexual selection"— Darwin’s provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Though less well known than The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.

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