La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle

Charles Darwin

Publié par Wentworth Press, le 27 août 2016

Résumé

Darwin wrote, of 'the fiery ordeal through which this book has passed'. He had avoided the logical outcome of the general theory of evolution, bringing man into the scheme, for twelve years, and in fact it had, by that time, been so much accepted that the clamor of the opposition was not strident. He had also been preceded in 1863 by Huxley's Man's place in nature. In this book word 'evolution' occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin's works. The last chapter is about sexual selection in relation to man, and it ends with the famous peroration about man's lowly origin, the wording of which differs slightly in the first edition from that which is usually quoted. In a letter dated March 28, 1871 (Emma Darwin, Vol. II, pp. 202-203) Darwin mentions the help that his daughter Henrietta Emma had given him in reading the manuscript and correcting the style, and calls her 'my very dear coadjutor and fellow-labourer'.

L'origine des espèces

De l'origine des Espèces

Der Ausdruck von Emotionen bei Mensch und Tier - Darwins "vergessenes Meisterwerk"

Les Mouvements et Les Habitudes des Plantes Grimpantes

On The Origin Of Species

Oeuvres complètes ; Charles Darwin Tome 21 à Tome 22 ; la variation des animaux et des plantes à l'état domestique

L'origine des espèces - Au moyen de la sélection naturelle ou La préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie

Oeuvres completes Tome 10 ; esquisse au crayon de ma théorie des espèces (1842)

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