RARE 1871 CHARLES DARWIN The DESCENT Of MAN 1ST AMERICAN EDITION Evolution
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THE DESCENT OF MAN
BY
CHARLES DARWIN
D. APPALATION & CO
1871
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, CLEAN INTERIOR, SOME WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE AS PICTURED. SLIGHT TILT ON VOLUME 1
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) lays out how the principle of sexual selection cou...ld produce the splendid variety of animal life forms. This was Darwin’s way of explaining how human beings descended from animals. More to my point, however, this was Darwin’s way of accounting for the variations required before his principle of natural selection could promote some forms of life at the expense of others. Without the concept of “variation, ” the theory of natural selection he proposed in The Origin of Species (1859) would not have been all that different from those of his competitors, save Alfred Russell Wallace. Nor could Darwin’s theory of evolution have achieved the extraordinary explanatory power it did. The Descent invites us to rethink this concept outside the gendered binaries of Victorian thought, so that it can challenge the primacy of natural selection.
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THE DESCENT OF MAN
BY
CHARLES DARWIN
D. APPALATION & CO
1871
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, CLEAN INTERIOR, SOME WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE AS PICTURED. SLIGHT TILT ON VOLUME 1
THIS SET SELLS FOR $1000s NORMALLY, SO BID NOW YOU MAY JUST WIN
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) lays out how the principle of sexual selection cou...ld produce the splendid variety of animal life forms. This was Darwin’s way of explaining how human beings descended from animals. More to my point, however, this was Darwin’s way of accounting for the variations required before his principle of natural selection could promote some forms of life at the expense of others. Without the concept of “variation, ” the theory of natural selection he proposed in The Origin of Species (1859) would not have been all that different from those of his competitors, save Alfred Russell Wallace. Nor could Darwin’s theory of evolution have achieved the extraordinary explanatory power it did. The Descent invites us to rethink this concept outside the gendered binaries of Victorian thought, so that it can challenge the primacy of natural selection.
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A TRUE PIECE OF HISTORY, SO BID NOW!!
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS
