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