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Title: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Works of Charles Darwin, Vol 22, Part 2) by Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, R.B. Freeman ISBN: 0-8147-1820-5 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: May, 1990 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $95.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Cautious Science at its Best
Comment: This book contains a wealth of facts, compiled during Darwin's life on matters which were highly controversial at the time. His prior book, Origin of Species, provided the scientific framework for thinking that mankind might, in some way, be a descent from the animal kingdom. For personal reasons, there was some doubt, at the time, whether it would ever be diplomatic to admit such a thing to the human beings themselves, right in their very faces. The title which Darwin placed on this book showed how easy it would be to imagine that the fundamental distinction was closely linked to the question of whom an individual might choose to have sex with, given the great parallels to a wide range of behavior in the animal kingdom. I have looked in this book for evidence that philosophy is a set of ideas adopted mainly in relation to sex, but the philosophy of the fittest for that kind of activity seems to be a bit more modern than Darwin. On a scale of stillborn to born with a brain, Darwin was definitely born with a brain, but it didn't make him crazy enough to suggest that which we may imply ourselves. There are a lot of facts in this book, compared to the number of suggestions, but it shows a considerable amount of thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting view into the views of the late 19th Century
Comment: Although there are many racist and sexist ideas, this was the climate in which Darwin wrote this book. Many of the details are grossly in error, but the book was written over 100 years ago. Many advances in knowledge have been made since then. The basic premise, and the fact that Darwin looked to the African apes as a point of origin for humans is the real beauty of the book. Darwin is many times falsely blamed for "Social Darwinism" which he never proposed nor advocated. Just because someone uses Darwin as a justification for negative ideas and or actions, does not mean that Darwin should be vilified for it. Descent was not a social commentary, but a scientific treatise, and should be treated as such.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thought police
Comment: Darwin operated in a thought world completely unacceptable to the "politically correct" speech/thought codes found on most college/university campuses today. If one subscribes to Darwinian or neo-Darwinian ideas, one has to wonder what new "great ideas" we are missing out on today, now that the politically correct thought police have taken over the media, education, and popular entertainment establishments--effictively suppressing the sort of thought that nurtured Darwin's "scientific" speculations.
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Title: Origin of Species by CHARLES DARWIN ISBN: 0517123207 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 22 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, Paul Ekman, Philip Prodger ISBN: 0195158067 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow ISBN: 0393310698 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin, Janet Browne, Michael Neve, Michael Neue ISBN: 014043268X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: On the Origin of Species a Facsimile of the First Edition by Charles Darwin, Ernst W. Mayr ISBN: 0674637526 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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