The Descent of Man

1 volume. Second edition [revised & augmented] 1890.

Publishers green cloth with blind-stamped borders.

Gilt title and gilt vignette to spine.

Decorative endpapers.

xvi, 693 pages.

Full-page plates.

In-text illustrations.

The Descent of Man was the first work to use the word 'evolution',

preceding its use in the sixth edition of Origin of Species by a year, and

it expands upon the theories of selection and evolution proposed in

Origin of Species. In Descent, Darwin puts forth a new theory of sexual

selection, explaining how it differs from and works alongside natural selection.

This volume discusses how evolutionary processes apply to humankind,

drawing in concepts from evolutionary psychology and ideas of differing

characteristics of anthropologically defined races of people. This work had

huge implications for the history of humankind and was met with mixed

responses from a society in which conservative religious beliefs could be

at odds with scientific advancement, but it went on to become immensely popular.

[Freeman 939, 940; Kohler 880].

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