CHAPTER VI 



THE COPULATORY ATTITUDES OF THE PAIR 



ANIMALS form themselves into a number of 

 different societies. In the last chapter, the 

 society of a family was considered in respect 

 of one of its characters, its instincts ; another 

 society has now to occupy the mind the 

 pair, the associated male and female. There 

 is probably no society in Nature more close 

 than the copulating pair. And because the 

 pair thus united are especially open to at- 

 tack, Natural Selection will probably leave 

 its mark on these two individuals. As has 

 been clearly proved, females are more valuable 

 than males ; search should therefore reveal 

 the presence of characters in the pair, which 

 control Natural Selection in such a way that 

 during copulation females will be preserved 

 at the expense of males. 



At present, only one character of the 

 copulating pair will be dealt with the at- 

 titudes they assume during copulation. A 



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