Xii CONTENTS. 



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naments due to sexual selection— Color acquired for the sake of 

 protection— Color, though common to both sexes, often due to 

 sexual selection — On the disappearance of spots and stripes in 

 adult quadrupeds— On the colors and ornaments of the Quadru- 

 mana— Summary 521 



PART III. 



SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION 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 551 



CHAPTER XX. 



SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OP 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 civilized and savage nations — 

 Conditions favorable to sexual selection during primeval times — 

 On the manner of action of sexual selection with mankind— On 

 the women in savage tribes having some power to choose their 

 husbands— Absence of hair on the body, and development of the 

 beard- Color of the skin— Summary 580 



CHAPTER XXI. 



GENERAL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. 



Main conclusion that man is descended from some lower form- 

 Manner of development — Genealogy of man — Intellectual and 

 moral faculties— Sexual selection— Concluding remarks 601 



Index 615 



