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 
