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  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140436310
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $27.99

The Descent of Man

Selection in Relation to Sex




"One of the ten most significant books" - Sigmund Freud

No book made a greater impact on the intellectual world of its first Victorian readers nor has had such an enduring influence on our thinking on science, literature, theology and philosophy.

In The Descent of Man, Darwin addresses the crucial question of the origins, evolution and racial divergence of mankind, that he had deliberately left out of On the Origin of Species. And the evidence he presents forces us to question what it is that makes us uniquely human.

  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140436310
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $27.99

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