by Charles Darwin
Darwin argues many traits evolved not for survival but for reproductive advantage through sexual selection. He extends evolutionary logic to human origins, emotions, and differences between the sexes.
In this collection, The Descent of Man references 1 other book and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by Why Nations Fail and The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World.
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Darwin directly builds on and extends the Origin of Species framework, applying natural selection to humanity
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They draw on Darwin's Descent of Man framework of human cooperation and competition to ground their claim that institutions, not biological endowments, explain divergence.
Darwin's later works including The Descent of Man are drawn on to trace Humboldt's enduring influence on Darwinian biology.
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