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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - The Descent of Man
		The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book on evolutionary theory by British naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871.
		Much of Descent is devoted to providing evidence for sexual selection in nature, which he also ties in to the development of aesthetic instincts in human beings, as well as the differences in coloration between the human races.
		A "man incurs a grave responsibility when, with the authority of a well-earned reputation, he advances at such a time the disintegrating speculations of this book."?title=Darwin was able to shrug this off as from a "windbag full of metaphysics and classics".
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=The_Descent_of_Man (3475 words)

	The Descent of Man
		Man has also some few instincts in common, as that of self- preservation, sexual love, the love of the mother for her new-born offspring, the desire possessed by the latter to suck, and so forth.
		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.
	www.jim.com /descent-.htm (17348 words)

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		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 early male forefathers of man were, as previously stated, probably furnished with great canine teeth; but as they gradually acquired the habit of using stones, clubs, or other weapons, for fighting with their enemies or rivals, they would use their jaws and teeth less and less.
		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)

	The Descent from Man: The Primordial Humam Kingdom and the Aristotelian Prime Matter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The spirit of man appears and is manifest in the embryonic condition, and also in that of childhood and of maturity, and it is resplendent and evident in the condition of perfection.
		The most noble being on the earth is man. He embraces the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms--that is to say, these conditions are contained in him to such an extent that he is the possessor of these conditions and states; he is aware of their mysteries and of the secrets of their existence.
		Man is the microcosm; and the infinite universe, the macrocosm.
	www.markfoster.net /rn/scirel/descent_from_man.html (2958 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Darwin (1874) Chapter 1
		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.
		Bischoff,[3] who is a hostile witness, admits that every chief fissure and fold in the brain of man has its analogy in that of the orang; but he adds that at noperiod of development do their brains perfectly agree; nor could perfect agreement be expected, for otherwise their mental powers would have been the same.
		In the orang this appendage is long and convoluted: in man it arises from the end of the short caecum, and is commonly from four to five inches in length, being onlyabout the third of an inch in diameter.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Darwin/Descent/descent1.htm (6869 words)

	The Descent of Man
		No doubt man, as well as every other animal, presents structures, which seem to our limited knowledge, not to be now of any service to him, nor to have been so formerly, either for the general conditions of life, or in the relations of one sex to the other.
		The same conclusion may be extended to man; the intellect must have been all-important to him, even at a very remote period, as enabling him to invent and use language, to make weapons, tools, traps, &c., whereby with the aid of his social habits, he long ago became the most dominant of all living creatures.
		Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
	www.cis.vt.edu /modernworld/d/Descent.html (5509 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Charles Darwin: Descent of Man, 1871
		Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subjected to a severe struggle for existence, and natural selection will have effected whatever lies within its scope.
		The moral nature of man has reached its present standard, partly through the advancement of his reasoning powers and consequently of a just public opinion, but especially from his sympathies having been rendered more tender and widely diffused through the effects of habit, example, instruction, and reflection.
		Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1871darwin.html (1340 words)

	Notes: Descent of Man ch. 21
		Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
		The advancement of the welfare of mankind is a most intricate problem: all ought to refrain from marriage who cannot avoid abject poverty for their children; for poverty is not only a great evil, but tends to its own increase by leading to recklessness in marriage.
		Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his rapid multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.
	isc.temple.edu /pericles/descentnotes.htm (2451 words)

	Descent of Man by Charles Darwin. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		It is not my intention to besmurch the character of the man, but it is known that he was a starch critic of religion, likely due to the hipocrasies he encountered through his own studies at the abby.
		However justified his criticisms of the church, the bias in his work is obvious, making it difficult to draw an objective conclusion from his presentation of evidence he openly claims are cited for the express purpose of supporting his claims, as well as omittions that discount them.
		As to the Descent of man, there are many more questions to be answered before we can make any such bold assumptions as his being a descendant of a more rudimentary species.
	www.online-literature.com /darwin/descent_man (940 words)

	Darwin - Selections from "The Descent of Man"
		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.
		Nevertheless the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
		We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, andc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.
	www.marquette.edu /classes/kernd/981_50/darwin/descent_of_man.htm (2873 words)

	The Descent of Man
		In mammals other than man, this condition is changed in the adult by a rotation of these structures, which come to lie parallel with the backbone, with the result that the aperture of the vagina is directed backwards.
		In adult man, on the other hand, the embryonic orientation of these structures is retained, with the result that the aperture of the vagina is directed ventrally.
		"Man's big toe provides another example of neoteny, for there is reason to believe that the foot in the ancestor of man had a big toe, which, as in the lower primates, was capable of opposition.
	www.rae.org /descent.html (3356 words)

	Descent of Man
		There are still differences of opinion about the descent of man. In the past, there have been bitter disputes over what doctrines should be taught, especially in public schools.
		This belief follows from the principle that the same laws of nature apply to man as to the rest of the physical world.
		Man and the modern apes are not the only families that descended from the ancestral primates.
	www.besse.at /sms/descent.html (480 words)

	CONTENTS: THE DESCENT OF MAN BY CHARLES DARWIN
		THE EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM.
		ON THE MANNER OF DEVELOPMENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM.
		COMPARISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS (Continued).
	human-nature.com /darwin/descent/contents.htm (129 words)

	Descent of Man Theory: Disproven by Molecular Biology
		The reality of the fossil record and the reliability of the dates of these fossils is actually instrumental in disproving the descent of man theory.
		One study examined a gene which was 2,600 base pairs and determined a last common ancestor date of 188,000 year ago (minimum of 51,000 and maximum of 411,000 years ago) (18).
		The other study used a very large piece of the Y chromosome (18,300 base pairs) and calculated a last common ancestor date of modern man of 43,000 years ago (minimum of 37,000 and maximum of 49,000 years ago) (19).
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/6562/evolution/descent.html (3649 words)

	The Descent of Man: Ancient Mysteries and Anomalies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Having established that early man knew of, and used electricity, the strange engravings at different locations within the Late Ptolemaic Temple of Hathor at Dendera in Egypt become easier to explain.
		It could be argued, that someone, for some reason, decided to shoot the skeleton leaving behind only a minor mystery, or, as opposed to the aurochs (which is known to be extinct), the skull is not as old as it is claimed to be.
		Neanderthal man's skull, however, cannot be easily mistaken for modern man's style, and this skull in particular, has been exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in London, were a mistake is unlikely to have been made.
	www.violations.dabsol.co.uk /descent/descentpart1.htm (2667 words)

	The descent of man
		The descent of man from his home, Paradise in the unconscious state was prompted by an inner urge, an inner desire to become self-conscious, an inner desire to experience which, at a particular stage forced the expulsion of such ambitious spirit seeds out of Paradise, their home.
		The fall of man therefore did not occur in Paradise, because this fall is a sin which is something not possible in Paradise.
		In the beginning, before the fall of man, he was able to uninterruptedly absorb only the good vibrations, the good virtues which are ever present in the work of Creation but with the entrance of the evil principle, other vibrations were introduced in which human beings could also indulge.
	www.kisol.com /man/descentofman.htm (2902 words)

	Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The life and work of Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions was the next stage after the work of Darwin from Orchids to Variation.
		When Darwin answered that Mill '"could learn some things" from biology, and that the "struggle for existence" produced man's special "vigour and courage" from battling "for the possession of women", she offered him a copy of Kant on the "moral sense" to sort out his ethical problems, but he declined.
		A "man incurs a grave responsibility when, with the authority of a well-earned reputation, he advances at such a time the disintegrating speculations of this book." Darwin was able to shrug this off as from a "windbag full of metaphysics and classics".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin_from_Descent_of_Man_to_Emotions (3314 words)

	howcomyoucom.com - The Descent of Man
		In fact, there is a high likelihood that concepts of man the hunter are simply another example of man the arrogant.
		Modern man, at an unprecedented rate, is changing her environment for the worst.
		According to the "man the scavenger" hypothesis, selection for large brains (i.e., greater than those of the chimpanzee) initially occurred within the context of a broadening of the hominid diet to include scavenged meat.
	www.howcomyoucom.com /Descent.htm (3870 words)

	The Descent of Man
		Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate
		and man, and how similarly their whole nervous system is affected.
		Man is infested with internal parasites, sometimes causing fatal effects;
	pubpages.unh.edu /~jel/evolution/Descent_ch1.html (3868 words)

	The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Origin of Species was Darwin's ground breaking book in which he published his theory of evolution and natural selection, however it was in The Descent of Man that Darwin specifically discussed the evolution of man from a "lower" animal ancestor.
		It was in The Descent of Man that Darwin made the earth shaking statement: "He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation."
		The book presented below is the revised second edition of The Descent of Man, which was first published in 1871.
	www.rationalrevolution.net /special/library/descentman.htm (160 words)

	Darwin, Descent of Man. Front matter (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		PART I. Nature of the evidence bearing on the origin of man—Homologous structures in man and the lower animals—Miscellaneous points of correspondence—Development—Rudimentary structures, muscles, sense-organs, hair, bones, reproductive organs, etc.—The bearing of these three great classes of facts on the origin of man.
		Differences between man and woman—Causes of such differences, and of certain characters common to both sexes—Law of battle—Differences in mental powers, and voice—On the influence of beauty in determining the marriages of mankind—Attention paid by savages to ornaments—Their ideas of beauty in women—The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity.
		When we confine our attention to any one form, we are deprived of the weighty arguments derived from the nature of the affinities which connect together whole groups of organisms— their geographical distribution in past and present times, and their geological succession.
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	INTRODUCTION: THE DESCENT OF MAN BY CHARLES DARWIN
		INTRODUCTION: THE DESCENT OF MAN BY CHARLES DARWIN
		Lamarck long ago came to this conclusion, which has lately been maintained by several eminent naturalists and philosophers; for instance, by Wallace, Huxley, Lyell, Vogt, Lubbock, Buchner, Rolle, andc.,* and especially by Haeckel.
		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.
	human-nature.com /darwin/descent/introduction.htm (1020 words)

	Descent of Man, Good Schools, Richard Dawkins, Darwin and Evolution
		In drawing a distinction between what he thinks would be the thought progressions of the lowest man and the highest animal, Darwin makes a fundamental language error.
		After listing the thoughts he thinks an anthropomorhous ape could not have, Darwin writes: “Some [anthropomorhous ] apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the colored skin and fur of their partners in marriage” (p.131).
		Marriage: In 1873, about the time Descent was first published, Merivale writes: “The two pillars upon which God has founded the edifice of civilized society are, after all, property and marriage (CEOED p.
	www.goodschools.com /descent_inconsistencies.htm (2256 words)

	The Descent of Man?
		This may appear surprising to many, but I am convinced that no other interpretation is possible and in fact I challenge any Darwinian to offer a detailed and convincing explanation for the existence of the human 'neotenous' features in the primates and other mammals in terms of the current theory.
		'the knowledge of life') and which has learned to acknowledge that the unique status of Man as both physical and spiritual being with a cosmic origin and destiny is the key to the understanding of the nature and purpose of our planet and all its inhabitants.
		We may then begin to develop a science (a knowing) which must be as much a spiritual science as a physical one: a science of those spiritual forces which in-form the physical, without which the merely physical would not exist and would have no form.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /5/carline.html (4051 words)

	Whiskey Bar: The Descent of Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
		They mirror very accurately his congenital hatred of knowledge, his bitter enmity to the man who knows more than he does, and so gets more out of life.
		Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average.
	billmon.org /archives/002069.html (265 words)

	Descent of Man Theory: Disproved by Molecular Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		) and calculated a last common ancestor date of modern man of 43,000 years ago (minimum of 37,000 and maximum of 49,000 years ago) (16).
		The fact that all these events happened ~50,000 years ago precludes any possibility that previously existing hominids could be our ancestors, since Homo erectus died out 300,000 years ago, and Homo neandertalensis has been proven to be too genetically different from us to have been our ancestor (29, 30).
		Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (Genesis 1:26)
	www.godandscience.org /evolution/descent.html (3753 words)

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