Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man is an edited conference volume, not a single authored argument, and its title states its purpose. The date range it carries marks one hundred years since Darwin published his own book on the descent of man and sexual selection, and the collection was assembled to take stock of what a century of work had made of that theory. The catalogue record places the volume under natural selection, sexual behaviour in animals, and human evolution, which indicates the span of the contributions, since sexual selection is treated both as a general problem in the biology of animal mating and as a mechanism bearing on the evolution of our own species. The record notes that the volume includes bibliographies, consistent with a set of separately authored research chapters rather than a continuous text. It was published in Chicago by Aldine in 1972, with a London edition the same year, and a second edition followed in 1977. The record does not list contributors or chapter titles, so this summary does not name them.

Written from the catalogue and Dublin Core metadata records for the 1972 Aldine volume at the Internet Archive.

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• Robert Trivers