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Tart III. 

 SEXUAL SELECTION IN KELATION TO MAN, 



AND CONCLUSION. 



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. 



With mankind the differences between the sexes are greater 

 than in most of the 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, 1 the superciliary ridge is generally more marked in 

 man than in woman. His body, and especially his face, is more 

 hairy, and his voice has a different and more powerful tone. In 

 certain races the women are said to differ slightly in tint from 

 the men. For instance, Schweinfurth, in speaking of a negress 

 belonging to the Monbuttoos, who inhabit the interior of Africa a 

 few degrees north of the Equator, says, " Like all her race, she had 

 '* a skin several shades lighter than her husband's, being some- 

 " thing of the colour of half-roasted coffee." 2 As the women 

 labour in the fields and are quite unclothed, it is not likely that 

 they differ in colour from the men owing to less exposure to the 

 weather. European women are perhaps the brighter coloured of 

 the two sexes, as may be seen when both have been equally 

 exposed. 



1 Schaaffhauscn, translation in 2 'The Heart of Africa,' English 



'Aathropologhal ReTiew, 5 Oct. 1868, Transl. 1873, vol. i. p. 544. 

 pp. 419, 420, 427. 



