In his introduction, Darwin reveals that for many years he had no
intention of publishing his notes on this topic, 'as I thought that
I should thus only add to the prejudices against my views'. By
1871, he felt that his fellow scientists would show a greater
openness of mind to his arguments, even when taken to their logical
conclusion and applied to the descent of man from the apes - the
aspect of his theory which had been so widely mocked since the
notorious question asked by Bishop Wilberforce at the Oxford debate
of 1860: was it through his grandmother or his grandfather that
Thomas Huxley, Darwin's champion, considered himself descended from
a monkey? However, the book's focus on the area of sexual selection
and the evolutionary importance of secondary sexual characteristics
across the animal kingdom meant that the book was received without
the public outrage that Darwin had feared.
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