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11.1 Not much choice for females 11.1 Not much choice for females
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11.2 The beauty of the Hottentot “bump” 11.2 The beauty of the Hottentot “bump”
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11.3 Truth and the embryo 11.3 Truth and the embryo
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11.4 “Overwhelmed with my riches in facts” 11.4 “Overwhelmed with my riches in facts”
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11.5 “Man” avoided 11.5 “Man” avoided
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11.6 “Interrupted” 11.6 “Interrupted”
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11.7 Publication: “Sexual selection far more important than I thought” 11.7 Publication: “Sexual selection far more important than I thought”
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11.8 Analogical issues 11.8 Analogical issues
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11.9 The “good woman” triumphant 11.9 The “good woman” triumphant
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Eleven Putting Female Choice in (Proper) Place
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Published:April 2017
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Chapter 11 takes the history of sexual selection from Darwin’s “big species” book up to the publication of the Origin of Species, focusing on female choice and the arguments and evidence Darwin adduced in its support. Two rediscovered pages of his “big species” book (thought lost) show that Darwin had put female choice in theoretical place by (at the latest) mid 1858. The importance of embryology in deciding Darwin to publish his views on the determining role of sexual selection in human racial differentiation in the Origin is stressed. His naturalization of female choice in birds and normalization of male aesthetic choice in human racial divergence is discussed in relation to the “good woman” of Victorian domestic ideology and the beginnings of “first wave” feminism.
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