1871 Books (Book Guide)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: 1871 novels, Through the Looking-Glass, Middlemarch, La Fortune des Rougon, The Descent of Man, Ralph the Heir, Great Gospel of John, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, The Civil War in France, The Eustace Diamonds, Little Men, The Battle of Dorking, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, Principles of Economics, At the Back of the North Wind, Desperate Remedies, A Daughter of Heth, Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, 1871 in literature, A Floating City, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, A guerra dos mascates, O tronco do ip . Excerpt: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the superiority of men to women, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society. Charles Darwin's second book of theory involved many questions of Darwin's time.Charles Darwin's Origin of Species had been met with a firestorm of controversy in reaction to Darwin's theory, largely because it was clear that it implied that human beings were evolved from animals, contradicting the biblical story in the Book of Genesis and implying an animal nature. Darwin chose not to make the link explicit in Origin, and although he first thought of the idea in 1837, he put off publishing it for a generation. A single line hinted at such a conclusion: "light will be thro...