Authors: Charles Darwin, Adrian Desmond, James Moore
ISBN-13: 9780140436310, ISBN-10: 0140436316
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Scientist Charles Darwin once asserted that "a scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections -- a mere heart of stone." Indeed, his objective take on evolution asserted in The Origin of Species shook the foundations of traditional religion to its core.
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.
Introduction | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
I | The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form | 5 |
II | On the Manner of Development of Man from Some Lower Form | 26 |
III | Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals | 66 |
IV | Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals (continued) | 100 |
V | On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilized Times | 131 |
VI | On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man | 151 |
VII | On the Races of Man | 172 |
VIII | Principles of Sexual Selection | 214 |
IX | Secondary Sexual Characters in the Lower Classes of the Animal Kingdom | 268 |
X | Secondary Sexual Characters of Insects | 283 |
XI | Insects (continued) - Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) | 316 |
XII | Secondary Sexual Characters of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles | 341 |
XIII | Secondary Sexual Characters of Birds | 370 |
XIV | Birds (continued) | 417 |
XV | Birds (continued) | 459 |
XVI | Birds (concluded) | 481 |
XVII | Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals | 518 |
XVIII | Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals (continued) | 544 |
XIX | Secondary Sexual Characters of Man | 576 |
XX | Secondary Sexual Characters of Man (continued) | 606 |
XXI | General Summary and Conclusion | 629 |
Supplemental Note | 644 | |
Index | 649 |