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The Descent of Man - Selection in Relation to Sex (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Descent of Man - Selection in Relation to Sex (Paperback, New Ed)
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Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of
the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the
culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is
edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond. 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. 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 their introduction, James Moore and Adrian
Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a
radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on
race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the
second and definitive edition and this volume also contains
suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical
sketches of prominent individuals mentioned. Charles Darwin
(1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of
the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged
and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs.
If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the
Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.
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