Chap. XIX. ] SEXUAL DIFFERENCES. 301 



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. — Differ- 

 ences 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-pro- 

 nounced muscles. Owing to the relation which exists 

 between muscular development and the projection of the 

 brows,* the superciliary ridge is generally 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 powerful 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-colored 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 brain 

 is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger 



' Schaaffhausen, translation in ' Anthropological Review,' Oct. 1868, 

 pp. 419, 420, 42*7. 



