Evidence & inquiry
The Descent of Man
Historical science
What happens when the naturalist turns the evidence on our own species?
A historical evolutionary argument that also contains obsolete claims and Victorian racial and sex hierarchies. The exact first-edition choice keeps it distinct from the substantially revised 1874 edition.
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London: John Murray, first edition, 1871; two volumes F937.1/F937.2; original English
Read at Darwin Online initially. Its modern transcription, editorial matter and supplied images do not automatically share the underlying work’s public-domain status. Individual scan images were not inspected in this collection’s research.
