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SEXUAL SELECTION: MAN. 
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CHAPTER XIX. 
. Secondary Sexual Characters of Man. 
Differences between man and woman — Causes of such differences 
and of certain characters common to both sexes — La"' oi 
battle — Differences in mental powers — and voice — On ^e 
influence of beauty in determining the marriages of manW 11 ” 
Attention paid by savages to ornaments — Their ideas 
beauty in woman — 'J he tendency to exaggerate each nat 11 1 ;l 
peculiarity. 
With mankind the differences between the sexes are 
greater than in most species of Quadrumana, but » ot 
so great as in some, for instance, the mandrill. ^ al ‘ 
on an average is considerably taller, heavier, and 
stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and W° re 
plainly-pronounced muscles. Owing to the relati° D 
which exists between muscular development and the 
projection of the brows , 1 the superciliary ridge is g eBe ” 
rally more strongly marked in man than in wou> aB- 
His body, and especially his face, is more hairy, * u) d 
his voice has a different and more powerful tone. i 11 
certain tribes the women are said, whether truly I kco" 
not, to differ slightly in tint from the men; and with 
Europeans, the women are perhaps the more bright!) 
coloured oi the two, as may be seen when both sexes 
have been equally exposed to the weather. 
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic 
thau woman, and has a more inventive genius, i ^ 
1 Schaaffhausen, translation in 1 Anthropological Keview,’ Oct. I 868, 
p. 419, 420, 427. 
