The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition)

CHAPTER XIX.

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SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS 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 woman--The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity 316-354