Format:
1 Online-Ressource (492 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511703836
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108005104
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108005104
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511703836
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703836
