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PART III.<br />

SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO<br />

MAN, AND CONCLUSION.<br />

CHAPTER XIX.<br />

SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF<br />

MAN.<br />

Differences between man and woman—Causes<br />

<strong>of</strong> such differences and <strong>of</strong> certain characters<br />

common to both sexes—Law <strong>of</strong> battle—<br />

Differences in mental powers, and voice—On<br />

the influence <strong>of</strong> beauty in determining the marriages<br />

<strong>of</strong> mankind—Attention paid by savages<br />

to ornaments—<strong>The</strong>ir ideas <strong>of</strong> beauty in woman—<strong>The</strong><br />

tendency to exaggerate each natural<br />

peculiarity.<br />

With mankind the differences between the<br />

sexes are greater than in most <strong>of</strong> the Quadru-

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