DARWIN, La Descendance de l'Homme et la sélection sexuelle, 1881
DARWIN, Charles.
La Descendance de l'Homme et la sélection sexuelle.
Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.
Un volume grand in-8 (224x138 mm), xxvii-721-21 pages. reliure : Pleine percaline verte éditeur, dos lisse. Charnières internes fendues.
Troisième édition en français.
Ce livre est le second ouvrage important de Darwin sur la théorie de l'évolution et succède à " De l'origine des espèces " publié en 1859.
Il y décrit l'application de sa théorie à l'évolution humaine et y précise la théorie de la sélection sexuelle.
références: Garrison [ 170, 227 (ed. 1871) : " This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for humans while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection. With respect to human origins, Darwin predicted that the ancestors of humanity would eventually be found in Africa, based on the extensive primate populations there. However, during the 19th and early 20th centuries paleoanthropologists focused their researches in Europe and Asia rather than Africa. This focus only gradually changed after Raymond Dart discovered Australopithecus africanus in 1924."].
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