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In The Origin of Species, (1859), Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' -- Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human. In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned. Book jacket.
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About three or so of these 17 short stories you might call ""serious."" About six could be called ""weird"": what strange things go on in an astronaut's house when he's flying way above; the inventor of ""Furballs""--a strain of limbless, headless, tailless, non-excreting cats that may put electric blankets out of business; how a hippie commune reacts to a biblical plague of blood. And the rest? About the best outrageous comic writing we've read in a long time. In the Primate Center down in Atlanta, things are progressing a little too well (""The chimp shook himself daintily, zippered up, pulled the plunger, crossed to the sink, washed and dried his hands, and left. I found I no longer had to go""). A man becomes obsessed with crashing a women-only restaurant (""I picture them. . . sipping, slouching, dandling sandals from their great toes. . . dropping the coils of their hair, unfastening their brassieres, rubbing the makeup from their faces""). And, best of all: ""Heart of a Champion,"" with each and every Lassie clich‚ mugged up gloriously--until the faithful dog gets lascivious over a mangy coyote--and the two canines together have little Timmy for dinner. Boyle swings for the fences: lots of cheerful grossness. But the real hilarity in his imagination works so consistently because his prose is so fine, reminiscent of early Perelman. This is a very funny man here, and an even better writer. Enjoy yourself. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Chronology | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Further Reading | p. lix |
| Note on the Text | p. lxv |
| The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex | p. 1 |
| Biographical Register | p. 695 |
| Index | p. 715 |