Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Darwin
CHAPTER XIX.
Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals.—continued. 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 woman—The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity 316-354