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Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work.

The Descent of Man, Darwin's second landmark work on evolutionary theory (following The Origin of the Species), marked a turning point in the history of science with its modern vision of human nature as the product of evolution. Darwin argued that the noblest features of humans,... Read Full Overview

En 1859 se inicia el Evolucionismo cuando Darwin publica el libro "El Origen de las especies por medio de la selecci n natural, o la preservaci n de las razas preferidas en la lucha por la vida". Este libro es el inicio de la teor a de la evoluci n por medio de la selecci n natural... Read Full Overview

First published in 1871, "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin. In this volume, Darwin attempts to marry the theories of human evolution with evolutionary theory, exploring evolutionary ethics, evolutionary psychology,... Read Full Overview

The nature of the biology essay, The Descent of Man and On Selection in Relation to Sex, can be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing on the subject,... Read Full Overview

In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is especially true of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin's... Read Full Overview

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show... Read Full Overview

In The Descent of Man (1871, 1874) Charles Darwin (1809-1882) focused special attention on the origin and history of our own species, a subject he had avoided in his previous writings on evolution. He claimed that the human animal is closest in ancestry to the two African "pongids,"... Read Full Overview

First published in 1871 and considered his other great work alongside "The Origin of Species," Darwin's "The Descent of Man" is a work that continues the scientist's theories on evolution. Divided into three parts, this book's purpose, as given in the introduction, is to consider... Read Full Overview

Muchos a os hace que ninguna obra ha causado tan profunda impresion en el mundo cient fico como la en que Darwin, el eminente naturalista ingl s, apoya su teor a sobre el Origen del Hombre, con todo el inmenso tesoro de su genio sorprendente y original, de sus investigaciones... Read Full Overview

The most accessible edition ever published of Darwin's incendiary classic, edited by "as fine a science essayist as we have" (New York Times)