Inclinations towards the arts must be regarded as secondary sexual characters.
Moebius[197] that “artistic proclivities are probably to be regarded as secondary sexual characters.
It will be seen that this last condition excludes the question of the origin of organs or characters confined to one sex, or secondary sexual characters.
In these lectures I elaborated a definite Lamarckian theory of the origin of Secondary Sexual Characters in relation to Hormones, extending the theory also to ordinary adaptive structures and characters which are not related to sex.
The horns of the Ruminants are frequently a secondary sexual character; this is especially the case with the Deer.
These are at least often {523} more strongly developed in males than in females, and may perhaps be partly relegated to the category of secondary sexual characters.
The rule being so plainly applicable in the case of secondary sexual characters, may be due to the great variability of these characters, whether or not displayed in any unusual manner--of which fact I think there can be little doubt.
The rule applies very strongly in the case of secondary sexual characters, when displayed in any unusual manner.
The term, secondary sexual characters, used by Hunter, applies to characters which are attached to one sex, but are not directly connected with the act of reproduction.
There is only slight individual variation, slight variation with age, and no secondary sexual variation.
The term, secondary sexual characters, used by Hunter, relates to characters which are attached to one sex, but are not directly connected with the act of reproduction.
Secondary sexual characters, for example, are correlated with the functional maturity or activity of the reproductive organs.
The vital vigour of males has favoured the origin of secondary sexual characters; that of females, the fostering and protection of young, and therefore the development in them of vital vigour.
Superabundant vigour may well, I think, have been a source of origin, not only of secondary sexual characters, but of many other forms of variation.
No less interesting and instructive than homochromic selection is that species of natural selection which Darwin calls "sexual selection," which explains the origin of the so-called "secondary sexual characters.
Now, the origin of these remarkable "secondary sexual characters" is explained by Darwin simply by a choice or selection which takes place in the propagation of animals.
This remarkable phenomenon is still very obscure, and has not as yet been investigated, but is probably of great importance in regard to the origin of "secondary sexual characteristics," to which we have already made allusion.
Smith has discovered a fact which shows that chemical changes must underlie these morphological transformations of primary or secondary sexual characters.
It is doubtless the first reason--the fact that high heels are a kind of secondary sexual character--which is most generally potent in this attraction.
Observations Upon the Acquirement of Secondary Sexual Characters, Indicating the Formation of an Internal Secretion by the Testicles," Proceedings Royal Society, vol.
The experiments of Shattock and Seligmann indicate that the semen and its reabsorption in the seminal vesicles, or the nervous reactions produced by its presence, can have no part in the formation of secondary sexual characters.
If we survey the wealth of phenomena presented to us by secondary sexual characters, we can hardly fail to be convinced of the truth of the principle of sexual selection.
The Descent of Man includes a very detailed investigation in regard tosecondary sexual characters in the animal series, and on this investigation Darwin founded a new theory, that of sexual selection.
Hence, secondary sexual characters, when equally transmitted to both sexes, can be distinguished from ordinary specific characters, only by the light of analogy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secondary sexual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
