PART THREE 

 SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN 



AND CONCLUSION 



CHAPTER XIX 



SECONDAEY 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 determin- 

 ing 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 difiEerences between the sexes are 

 greater than in most of the 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 pronounced muscles. Owing to the relation which 

 exists between muscular development and the projection of 

 the brows,* the superciliary ridge is generally more marked 

 in man than in woman. His body, and especially his face, 

 is more hairy, and his voice has a diflEerent and more pow- 

 erful tone. In certain races the women are said to differ 

 slightly in tint from the men. For instance, Schweinfurth, 

 in speaking of a negress belonging to the Monbottoos, who 

 inhabit the interior of Africa a few degrees north of the 

 Equator, says, "Like all her race, she had a skin several 

 shades lighter than her husband's, being something of the 



' Schaaffhausen, translation in "Anthropological Bevtew," Oct. 1868, pp. 

 419, 420, 427. 



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