CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
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of man — Absence of fossil connecting-links — Lower stages in 
the genealogy of man, as inferred, firstly from bis affinities and 
secondly from bis structure — Early androgynous condition of 
tbe Vertebrata — Conclusion Page 185-213 
CHAPTER YII. 
On the Races of Man. 
Tbe nature and value of specific characters — Application to tbe races 
of man — - Arguments in favour of, and opposed to, ranking tbe 
so-called races of man as distinct species — Sub-species — Mono- 
genists and polygenists — Convergence of character — Numerous 
points of resemblance in body and mind between the most distinct 
races of man — Tbe state of man when he first spread over the 
earth — Each race not descended from a single pair — Tbe ex- 
tinction of races — The formation of races — The effects of cross- 
ing — Slight influence of the direct action of the conditions of life 
— Slight or no influence of natural selection — Sexual selection. 
214-250 
PART II. 
SEXUAL SELECTION. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Principles of Sexual Selection. 
Secondary sexual characters — Sexual selection — Manner of action 
— Excess of males — Polygamy — The male alone generally 
modified through sexual selection — Eagerness of the male— 
Variability of the male — Choice exerted by the female — Sexual 
compared with natural selection — Inheritance at corresponding 
periods of life, at corresponding seasons of the year, and as limited 
by sex — Relations between the several forms of inheritance— 
Causes why one sex and the young are not modified through 
sexual selection — Supplement on the proportional numbers of 
the two sexes throughout the animal kingdom — On the limita- 
tion of the numbers of the two sexes through natural selection 
253-320 
