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May 3, 2021 · The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is the second edition of a book on evolutionary theory by British naturalist Charles Darwin. The first edition was published in 1871, and the second, enlarged edition in 1874 (this Wikisource edition is based on an unchanged reprint of the second edition).
Aug 1, 2000 · The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin | Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg. 73,442 free eBooks. 53 by Charles Darwin.
Jun 17, 2019 · 2.1. The Concept of Natural Selection. 2.2. The Argument of the Published Origin. 3. The Reception of the Origin. 3.1 The Popular Reception of Darwin’s Theory. 3.2 The Professional Reception of Darwin’s Theory. 4. Human Evolution and the Descent of Man. 4.1 The Genesis of Darwin’s Descent. 4.2 Darwin on Mental Powers.
In 1871 Darwin published The Descent of Man, which argued that human beings shared a recent common ancestor with the great African apes. He identified the defining characteristic of the human species as their relatively large brain size and deduced that the evolutionary advantage of the human species was…. Read More.
Sep 7, 2017 · The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex. Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, James Moore. Penguin UK, Sep 7, 2017 - Science - 864 pages. Applying his controversial theory of evolution...
Jun 29, 2004 · Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human. In...
Sep 20, 2018 · The Descent of Man. This book is a summary of The Descent of Man published by Charles Darwin in 1871. Introduction. In his introduction to The Descent of Man, Darwin states that he wrote this book because of the wide acceptance the concept of natural selection had received following the publication of The Origin of Species.
