Darwins General Summary and Conclusions of the Descent of Man and Sele

Darwins General Summary and Conclusions of the Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex In the General Summary and Conclusions of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin argues that man is not the work of a separate feat of creation. Rather, he believes that humans evolved from a lower being to what we are today. Darwin looks at the whole organic world i when finding evidence to support his air, using the phylogeny of plants and animals to illustrate his points. Darwin claims that natural selection and sexual selection are two modes of evolution and explains both in detail. However, Darwin does not just cover science he withal looks at how social behavior affects evolution and sexual selection. In this way, non-epistemic values have a great influence on Darwins theories. Darwins main argument is that man is descended from some less highly organized formii. As evidence for his claim, Darwin looks at the similarity between the features of humans and other animals during embryonic development. He finds that there are innumerable points of structure and constitution iii that are similar. Anyone who disagrees with him would be forced to conclude, man is the co-descendent with other mammals of a common progenitoriv. He to a fault explains the differences between natural selection and sexual selection, as well as how sexual selection is important to evolution. First, natural selection depends on how well an organism can adapt to its environment. If it doesnt have the means to survive in its... ... values, especially when dealing with the human social condition and the differences in superiority between civilizations. It is also interesting to see how others have interpreted Darwins theories, and created their own theories based on Darwinism. Overall, Darwins ideas, while or iginally scientific, have been impacted by social factors and in patch have influenced social theories. --------------------------------------------------------------------- i Page 386 ii Page 385 iii Page 385 iv Page 386 v Page 403 vi Page 390 vii Page 393 viii Page 394 ix Page 395 x Vol. I, Page 169Works CitedDarwin, Charles. From The Descent of Man. limiting and Tradition Cultural and Historical Perspectives. Dubuque, Iowa Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1998.