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case of the female being more ornamented than the male — 

 Colour and ornaments due to sexual selection — Colour acquired 

 for the sake of protection — Colour, though common to both 

 sexes, often due to sexual selection — On the disappearance of 

 spots and stripes in adult quadrupeds — On the colours and orna- 

 ments of the Quadrumana — Summary . . . 525 



PAKT III. 

 SEXUAL SELECTION IN KELATION TO MAN, 



AND CONCLUSION. 



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CH AFTER 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, aud 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 . 556 



CHAPTER XX. 



Secondary Sexual Characters of Man — continued. 



On the effects of the continued selection of women according to a 

 different standard of beauty in each race — On the causes which 

 interfere with sexual selection in civilised aud savage nations 

 — Conditions favourable to sexual selection during primeval 

 times — On the manner of action of sexual selection with man- 

 kind — On the women in savage tribes having some power to 

 choose their husbands — Absence of hair on the body, and 

 development of the beard — Colour of the skin — Summary . 585 



CHAPTER XXI. 



General Summary and Conclusion. 



Uain conclusion that man is descended from some lower form — 

 Manner of development — Genealogy of man — Intellectual and 

 moral faculties — Sexual selection — Concluding remarks . 60T 



Lnpes 620 



