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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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acquired by man, and as the instinctive power of producing musical notes and rhythms is developed low down in the animal series, it would be altogether opposed to the principle of evolution, if we were to admit that man's musical capacity has been developed from the tones used in impassioned speech. We must suppose that the rhythms and cadences of oratory are derived from previously developed musical powers.39 We can thus understand how it is that music, dancing, song, and poetry are such very
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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are facts which cannot be disputed. They have long been known, but until recently they told us nothing with respect to the origin of man. Now when viewed by the light of our knowledge of the whole organic world, their meaning is unmistakable. The great principle of evolution stands up clear and firm, when these groups or facts are considered in connection with others, such as the mutual affinities of the members of the same group, their geographical distribution in past and present times, and
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F955
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly or not at all developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvæ of the existing marine Ascidians than any other known form. The high standard of our intellectual powers and moral disposition is the greatest difficulty which presents itself, after we have been driven to this conclusion on the origin of man. But every one who admits the principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals
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F955
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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, habits of, 291. Anura, 349. Apatania muliebris, male unknown, 254. Apathus, difference of the sexes in, 292. Apatura Iris, 307, 308. Apes, difference of the young, from the adult, 8; semi-erect attitude of some, 52; mastoid processes of, 53; influences of the jaw-muscles on the physiognomy of, 54; female, destitute of large canines, 63; building platforms, 82; imitative faculties of, 129; anthropomorphous, 153; probable speedy extermination of the, 156; Gratiolet on the evolution of, 177; canine
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. Chimæroid fishes, prehensile organs of male, 331. Chimpanzee, 561; ears of the, 14; representatives of the eyebrows in the, 19; hands of the, 50; absence of mastoid processes in the, 53; platforms built by the, 66; cracking nuts with a stone, 81; direction of the hair on the arms of the, 151; supposed evolution of the, 177; polygamous and social habits of the, 590. China, North, idea of female beauty in, 578. —, Southern, inhabitants of, 197 Chinese, use of flint tools by the, 145; difficulty
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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Mutilla europæa, 293. Gout, sexually transmitted, 237. Graba, on the Pied Ravens of the Feroe Islands, 424; variety of the Guillemot, 424. Gradation of secondary sexual characters in birds, 430. Grallatores, absence of secondary sexual characters in, 219; double moult in some, 390. Grallina, nidification of, 454. Grasshoppers, stridulation of the, 286. Gratiolet, Prof., on the anthropomorphous apes, 154; on the evolution of the anthropomorphous apes, 177; on the difference in the development of the
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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appendage of, 21; hands of the, 50; absence of mastoid processes in the, 53; platforms built by the, 66; alarmed at the sight of a turtle, 72; using a stick as a lever, 81; using missiles, 81; using the leaves of the Pandanus as a night covering, 82; direction of the hair on the arms of the, 151; its aberrant characters, 154; supposed evolution of the, 177; voice of the, 527; monogamous habits of the, 590; male, beard of the, 531. Oranges, treatment of, by monkeys, 50. Orange-tip butterfly, 308
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.
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; analogy of sexual differences of, with those of man, 558; fighting of males for the females, 562; monogamous habits of, 590; beards of the, 602. Quain, R., on the variation of the muscles in man, 26. Quatrefages, A. de, on the occurrence of a rudimentary tail in man, 22; on variability, 30; on the moral sense as a distinction between man and animals, 97; civilised men stronger than savages, 136; on the fertility of Australian women with white men, 170; on the Paulistas of Brazil, 173; on the evolution
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microcephalous idiots,87 ; on skulls from Brazilian caves, 168; on the evolution of the races of man, 177; on the formation of the skull in women, 557; on the Ainos and negroes, 560; on the increased cranial difference of the sexes in man with race development, 566; on the obliquity of the eye in the Chinese and Japanese, 578. Voice in mammals, 525; in monkeys and man, 558; in man, 566; origin of, in air-breathing vertebrates, 567. Von Baer, definition of advancement in the organic scale, 164
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symbol of battle than a loadstone of affection; and though the last twenty years have witnessed great changes in public opinion, to this day the name of the founder of the school of evolution is perhaps more widely feared than loved. By the side of the grave now open to receive his last remains the combatants will ground their arms and unite in paying a tribute of respect to one of the keenest, truest, most persevering, courageous, and successful students of nature that have appeared in the
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 13 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. No scientific man of his own generation has exercised so profound an influence upon contemporary thought as Charles Robert Darwin, whose death we announce to-day; for the theory of evolution, which he presented to the world with such a powerful array of accurately-observed and systematically arranged facts to support it, has brought about a complete revolution in men's ideas upon the subjects of ontology, anthropology
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Anon. 1882. [Review of Earthworms]. Services rendered by earthworms. Leisure Hour Monthly Library, 31: 24-5.
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an object of attention, and from their numbers and fecundity. It will be curious to note the use made of Mr. Darwin's book in connection with what is called the Darwinian theory of evolution. The whole drift of this elaborate study on worms tends to show that their work is not carried on simply for their own benefit, nor is taken advantage of for their own elevation in the scale of being, but is an arrangement for the use of the more highly developed creatures, especially man. The Spectator has
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Anon. 1882. [Review of] The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. Sydney Morning Herald (1 May): 7.
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superficial bed of vegetable mould passes through their bodies in the course of every few years. They decompose and disintegrate particles of earth, generate humus-acids, circulate carbonic acid through the soil, and prepare the ground in an excellent manner for the growth of fibrous-rooted plants and for seedlings of all kinds. No theory of evolution is associated by the author with the results of his latest observations. He is content to submit plain facts, leaving them to speak for themselves
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[Obituary notice of Darwin Charles Robert] `Morning Advertiser'
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, he had already passed prime even of scientific or literary life; but he first became known to the reading world at large and therefore seemed to the present generation belong to our own age rather than that of our fathers. The character of the work incomplete and prefatory as it avowedly was explains the silence of so many preceding years, and why not long afterwards, the full scheme of doctrine of evolution, together with the nature of evidence on which it was founded, was laid before the public
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[Obituary notice of Darwin Charles Robert] `Daily Telegraph'
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previous human labours, for evolution holds good of genius as of all else. GOETHE had hinted, and LAMARCK at the beginning of this century had actually formulated the chief points of a scientific and natural view of the developments of animal and vegetable life. These suggestions, however, lay neglected until the sudden apparition of that wonderful work of CHARLES DARWIN, which put life and soul into the imperfect ideas, and placed before the astonished generation a new view of Animated Nature
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modified any such impression. It is seen that, whether the creative activity of God is manifested through catastrophes, as the phrase goes, or in progressive evolution, it is still His creative activity, and the really great questions beyond remain untouched. The evolutionary process supposing it to exist, must have had a beginning: who began it? it? It must have mad material to work with: who furnished it? It is itself a law or system of laws: who them? Even supposing that the theory represents
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beginning to regard Evolution as a hypothesis which may in a measure be harmonized with their first principles. The story of such scenes as those which took place at the celebrated meeting of the British Association at Oxford, in 1860, and of the battle royal between BISHOP WILBERFORCE and the young and ardent MR. HUXLEY, reads at the present day like a scene from ancient history; like an episode in the persecution of GALILEO, or a preliminary to the excommunication of SPINOZA. The time has gone
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years will bear me out to the full when I assert that there is no field of biological inquiry in which the influence of the 'Origin of Species' is not traceable; the foremost men of science in every country are either avowed champions of its leading doctrines, or at any rate abstain from opposing them; a host of young and ardent investigators seek for and find inspiration and guidance in Mr. Darwin's great work; and the general doctrine of Evolution, to one side of which it gives expression
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over the earth's surface, and tracing the relations and affinities of different groups, the theory of evolution is at the present time taken for granted, and deductions based upon it are allowed to pass unchallenged in every scientific society throughout the world. In The Descent of Man the doctrine of evolution from pre-existing forms is applied to the human species; whilst in The Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication we have a marvellous collection of facts bearing, on the one
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accepted as true that the terms evolution, inheritance, variation, the battle of life, survival of the fittest, have become household words, and are applied to circumstances and conditions never dreamt of by Darwin himself. The origin of living beings from a common stock, their divergence according to circumstances, the force of competition in moulding their forms and other circumstances, upon which the theory of evolution is founded, are now accepted, in principle if not in every detail, by almost
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