The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin
English | July 20, 2009 | ISBN: 1108005098 | 436 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | July 20, 2009 | ISBN: 1108005098 | 436 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
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?