Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (eBook)

Charles Darwin (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
960 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2006-1 (ISBN)

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John Tyler Bonner and Robert M. May are Professors of Biology at Princeton University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2008
• Einführung: John Tyler Bonner, Robert M May
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Albinism • Anobium • Arachnid • Asinus • Batesian mimicry • Brachycephaly • bubalus • Cantharis • Caprimulgus • castration • Charles Darwin • Circumlocution • Coefficient of relationship • comparative anatomy • Corvus • courtship • CUR • Cyprinus • Darwinism • dichotomy • Drongo • dynastes • Elytron • Ernst Haeckel • Ethology • Eusociality • Evolution • Evolutionism • female • Gallinago • Genetic Recombination • group marriage • Haemophilia • Herbert Spencer • heredity • Homology (biology) • Hybrid (biology) • imbecile • infanticide • Just So Stories • lamarckism • Libellula depressa • Lucanus cervus • Mandrill • Mastication • mating • Mendelian Inheritance • Mergus • monogamy • Natural selection • ON HUMAN NATURE • Oriolus • Oryctes • Other sex • Oviparity • pangenesis • P. domesticus • Phacochoerus • Physiognomy • Placentalia • plumage • Polyandry • Polygamy • Population Genetics • Pouter • Primogeniture • Promiscuity • Quadrumana • Race (human categorization) • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • Rhesus Macaque • Ruminant • Secondary sex characteristic • Sex • Sex differences in humans • Sexism • sex organ • Sex Ratio • sexual attraction • Sexual Dimorphism • sexual function • Sexual Selection • Sexual selection in birds • Slavery • Sociocultural evolution • Spilosoma • Tapir • Tephrodornis • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals • The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication • Thomas Henry Huxley • Thylacinus • Totanus • Tragopan • T. W. Wood • Urosticte • Vivisection • Y Chromosome
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2006-5 / 1400820065
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2006-1 / 9781400820061