Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (London, 1871)

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (London, 1871)

Descent is Darwin’s second book on evolutionary theory. In Descent Darwin applies the evolutionary theory of On the Origin of the Species (1859) to human evolution; he provides detailed evidence of the relationship between man and other forms and expands on his theory of ‘sexual selection’ – i.e. the inter and intra selection of sexual partners which drove the evolution of species.

340:1.c.95.139-140

1871

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