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CHAPTER XIX. 



Secondary Sexual Characters of Man. 



Differences between man and woman — Causes of such differences 

 and of certain cliaracters 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. 



With mankind the differences between the sexes are 

 greater than in most species of Quadrumana, but not 

 so great as in some, for instance, the mandrilL Man 

 on an average is considerably taller, heavier, and 

 stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and more 

 plainly-pronounced muscles. Owing to the relation 

 which exists between muscular development and the 

 projection of the brows,^ the superciliary ridge is gene- 

 rally more strongly marked in man than in woman. 

 His body, and especially his face, is more hairy, and 

 his voice has a different and more po\\'erful tone. In 

 certain tribes the women are said, whether truly I know 

 not, to differ slightly in tint from the men ; and with 

 Europeans, the women are perhaps the more brightly 

 coloured of the two, as may be seen when both sexes 

 have been equally exposed to the weather. 



Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic 

 than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His 



^ Schaaifliausen, translation in ' Anthropological Review,' Oct. 1868, 

 p. 419, 420, 427. 



