Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

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Darwin, Charles
Princeton University Press
EAN: 9780691023694
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In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is especially true of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin's second most important work. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the first printing of the first edition (1871), not previously available in paperback. The work is divided into two parts. Part One marshals behavioral and morphological evidence to argue that humans evolved from other animals. Darwin shoes that human mental and emotional capacities, far from making human beings unique, are evidence of an animal origin and evolutionary development. Part Two is an extended discussion of the differences between the sexes of many species and how they arose as a result of selection. Here Darwin lays the foundation for much contemporary research by arguing that many characteristics of animals have evolved not in response to the selective pressures exerted by their physical and biological environment, but rather to confer an advantage in sexual competition. These two themes are drawn together in two final chapters on the role of sexual selection in humans. In their Introduction, Professors Bonner and May discuss the place of The Descent in its own time and relation to current work in biology and other disciplines.
EAN 9780691023694
ISBN 0691023697
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ Princeton University Press
Dátum vydania 21. augusta 1981
Stránky 960
Jazyk English
Rozmery 203 x 140
Krajina United States
Čitatelia Professional & Scholarly
Autori Darwin, Charles
Ilustrácie w. 76 figs.
Edícia Revised ed