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Title: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
Identifier: descentofmansel02darw (find matches)
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Sexual selection in animals; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sex differences; Human beings
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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270 SEXUAL SELECTION: MAMMALS. (I'AKT n. vidjc), and of certain antelopes, are furnished with a dew- lap, or great fold of skin on the neck, which is much less developed in the female. Now, what must we conclude Avith respect to such sexual differences as these ? No one will pretend that the
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Fig. 66.—Pithecia Satanae, male (from Brehm). boards of certain male goats, or the dewlap of the bull, or the crests of hair along the backs of certain male ante- lopes, are of any direct or ordinary use to them. It is possil)le that the immense beard of the male Pithecia, and the large beard of the male Orang, may protect their tliroats wlien fighting; for the keepers in the Zoological (Jurdens inform me that many monkeys attack each other by the throat: but it is not probable that the beard has

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  • booksubject:Evolution_Biology_
  • booksubject:Sexual_selection_in_animals
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