THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
Written by Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins
Published by Folio Society
in 2008
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THE DESCENT OF MAN AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX
Written by Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins.
Stock no. 1830231
1st thus.
2008.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Introduction by Richard Dawkins. Attractive green and gilt pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Top edge green. xlvii and 727 pages including index. Couple of minor corner creases to contents else a lovely copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Author's Introduction
- PART I
- THE DESCENT OR ORIGIN OF MAN
- I The Evidence of the Descent of Man from some Lower Form
- II On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form
- III Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
- IV Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals (continued)
- V On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilised Times
- VI On the Affinities and Geneology of Man
- VII On the Races of Man
- PART II
- SEXUAL SELECTION
- VIII Principles of Sexual Selection
- IX Secondary Sexual Characters in the Lower Classes of the Animal Kingdom
- X Secondary Sexual Characters of Insects
- IX Insects - continued, Order Lepidoptera
- XII Secondary Sexual Characters of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
- XIII Secondary Sexual Characters of Birds
- XIV Birds continued
- XV Birds contineud
- XVI Birds continued
- XVII Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals
- XVIII Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals continued
- PART III
- SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN AND CONCLUSION
- XIX Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
- XX Secondary Sexual Characters of Man continued
- XXI General Summary and Conclusion
- Supplemental Note
- Index