Summary
The work The Descent of Man consists of two parts, arranged in two books (The Descent or Creation of Man and Sexual Selection). In the first part, Darwin investigates the behavior and morphology of animals and concludes that man is not the product of a special act of creation, but that he derives his origin from the animal base. Darwin, therefore, proves that man by his human spiritual and emotional abilities is not some isolated reality in nature, that is, that there is enough evidence of the animal origin and evolutionary origin of man and all his really great and peculiar abilities. The second part of the book is a continuation of that discussion, in the light of Darwin's principle of sexual selection.
The writer shows in detail how in many species there are differences between the sexes that are the result of sexual selection and, further in evolution, the origin for the development of many new abilities, up to specifically human spiritual abilities, intellect and imagination, with moral behavior as the pinnacle of humanity.
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