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nase of the female boiug more ornamented than the male — 

 Colour and ornaments due to sexual selection — Colour acquired 

 for the sake of proteetion — Colour, though common to both 

 nexes, often due to sexual eeleution — On the disappearance of 

 Siioia and stripes in adult quadrupeds — On the colours and orna- 

 mnnts of the Quadruraana — Summary . . . 5»t 



PART III. 

 SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, 



AND OONCLnSlON. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Secondary Sexual Cuaraoteks op 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 ortaments — Their ideas of beauty in woman 

 — The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity . 656 



CHAPTER XX. 



Secondahy Suxual Charaotebs op Man — coniinv,ed,. 



On the effects of the continued selection of women according to a 

 different standard of beauty in each race — On the lauses which 

 interfere with sexual selection in civilised and savage nations 

 — Conditions favourable to sexual selection during primeval 

 times — On tlie manner of action of sexual selection with man- 

 kind — On the women in savage tribes having some power to 

 choose their hn&bands — Absence of hair on the body, and 

 development of the beard — Colour of the skin — Summary . .'iS.'' 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Genehal Summary and Conclusion. 



Slain conclusion that man is descended from some lower form — 

 Manner of development — Genealogy of njan — Intellectual and 

 moral faculties — Sexual selection— Concluding remarks . 60r 



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