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	The Descent of Man \| Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Man is liable to numerous, slight, and diversified variations, which are induced by the same general causes, are governed and transmitted in accordance with the same general laws, as in the lower animals.
		In man the nose is much more prominent than in most monkeys; but we may trace the commencement of an aquiline curvature in the nose of the Hoolock gibbon; and this in the Semnopithecus nasica is carried to a ridiculous extreme.
		It is commonly said that the forehead gives to man his noble and intellectual appearance; but the thick hair on the head of the bonnet monkey terminates downwards abruptly, and is succeeded by hair so short and fine that at a little distance the forehead, with the exception of the eyebrows, appears quite naked.
	www.book-worm.org /darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-06.html (5716 words)

	CHAPTER 4: COMPARISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS (Continued). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As man is a social animal, it is almost certain that he would inherit a tendency to be faithful to his comrades, and obedient to the leader of his tribe; for these qualities are common to most social animals.
		A man cannot prevent past impressions often repassing through his mind; he will thus be driven to make a comparison between the impressions of past hunger, vengeance satisfied, or danger shunned at other men's cost, with the almost ever-present instinct of sympathy, and with his early knowledge of what others consider as praiseworthy or blameable.
		As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him.
	www.human-nature.com /darwin/descent/chap4.htm (10170 words)

	Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Darwin had to show how this was explained by his theory of sexual selection, and was now working to include this with ape ancestry and evolution of morality and religion in a new book which he now decided to call The Descent of Man.
		Darwin's neighbour Lubbock had been elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in February 1870 and Darwin lobbied him to get a question added to the census to find if married cousins had as many surviving children as unrelated parents, but when it came up in July, Lubbock's amendment caused furious debate and was heavily defeated.
		Darwin reacted positively to a tract by the American Francis Abbott proposing "the extinction of faith in the Christian Confession" and a new humanist "Free Religion" for the "spiritual perfection of the individual and the spiritual unity of the race".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin_from_Descent_of_Man_to_Emotions (3322 words)

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		Man is developed from an ovule, about the 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
		Man could not have attained his present dominant position in the world without the use of his hands, which are so admirably adapted to act in obedience to his will.
		The belief that there exists in man some close relation between the size of the brain and the development of the intellectual faculties is supported by the comparison of the skulls of savage and civilised races, of ancient and modern people, and by the analogy of the whole vertebrate series.
	cricket.biol.sc.edu /htdocs2/htdocs2/darwin/descent. (17709 words)

	Darwin - Selections from "The Descent of Man"
		HE WHO wishes to decide whether man is the modified descendant of some pre-existing form, would probably first enquire whether man varies, however slightly, in bodily structure and in mental faculties; and if so, whether the variations are transmitted to his offspring in accordance with the laws which prevail with the lower animals.
		On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, andc., is utterly inexplicable.* It is no scientific explanation to assert that they have all been formed on the same ideal plan.
		Consequently we ought frankly to admit their community of descent: to take any other view, is to admit that our own structure, and that of all the animals around us, is a mere snare laid to entrap our judgment.
	www.marquette.edu /classes/kernd/981_50/darwin/descent_of_man.htm (2873 words)

	Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man - Chapter 1 - The Evidence of the Descent of Man from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Natural Selection.- We have now seen that man is variable in body and mind; and that the variations are induced, either directly or indirectly, by the same general causes, and obey the same general laws, as with the lower animals.
		Although the intellectual powers and social habits of man are of paramount importance to him, we must not underrate the importance of his bodily structure, to which subject the remainder of this chapter will be devoted; the development of the intellectual and social or moral faculties being discussed in a later chapter.
		Belt believes(3) that within the tropies it is an advantage to man* to be destitute of hair, as he is thus enabled to free himself of the multitude of ticks (acari) and other parasites, with which he is often infested, and which sometimes cause ulceration.
	warta.bio.psu.edu /protected/books/TheDescentOfMan.html (18125 words)

	Questions on Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Note Darwin's comparison of "the lowest savages" to apes and his description of the "Fuegians".
		Darwin goes through each of the main mental faculties (emotions, imagination, reason, use of tools, language, self-consciousness), arguing that they do not separate humans from animals except in degree.
		If Darwin is right about the origins of humans, what does this imply about the relationship of the mind/soul to the body (note that Darwin never talks about humans' souls)?
	www.marquette.edu /classes/kernd/981_50/darwin/darwin3_questions.htm (311 words)

	Amazon.com: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex: (With a new introduction by J.T. Bonner and R.M. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While Darwin's theory of natural selection was accepted in the 1930s, Darwin's theory of sexual selection remains controversial.
		Darwin operated in a thought world completely unacceptable to the "politically correct" speech/thought codes found on most college/university campuses today.
		For instance Darwin finds it neccessary to assert what the highest state of morality is for a person, and elsewhere he urges people in any way "inferior" not to marry.
	www.amazon.com /Descent-Man-Selection-Relation-Sex/dp/0691023697 (1735 words)

	Amazon.com: The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics): Books: Charles Darwin,James Moore,Adrian Desmond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin
		In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too "surrounded with prejudices." He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871.
		Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Stephen G. Alter on 11 pages
	www.amazon.com /Descent-Man-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140436316 (759 words)

	Descent of Man by Charles Darwin: Introduction
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		81) a very curious paper on rudimentary characters, as bearing on the origin of man. Another work has (1869) been published by Dr. Francesco Barrago, bearing in Italian the title of "Man, made in the image of God, was also made in the image of the ape."
		During many years it has seemed to me highly probable that sexual selection has played an important part in differentiating the races of man; but in my Origin of Species I contented myself by merely alluding to this belief.
	www.online-literature.com /darwin/descent_man/0 (1068 words)

	Great Books Index - Charles Darwin
		The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
		Author index of Classics in the History of Psychology
		-- Links to works by Darwin and others.
	books.mirror.org /gb.darwin.html (117 words)

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