Humanity appears to move in a confused medley of the most diverse and composite forms, without any one of them being able to persist; for the means of persistence, artificial selection or sexual selection, are wanting.
Moreover, it may be presumed that the alternating dances of men and women were, at the beginning of societies, a powerful aid to sexual selection.
The Polynesians were acquainted even with printing on textures by means of fern-fronds or Hibiscus flowers, which they steeped in colour and applied to their "tapa.
The dyeing of thread and stuffs by an application of mordants (kaolin especially) is known to all peoples acquainted with weaving.
The latter have been known since remote antiquity.
Among the latter Grottewitz includes "sexual selection," which is indeed a monstrous figment of the imagination.
This has been the history of Darwinism, and especially of Darwin's theory of sexual selection.
With regard to the female bird sometimes, as here, keeping turned from the male while thus courted by him, this is, I think, capable of explanation in a way not hostile but favourable to the theory of sexual selection.
Sexual selection, of which these are special cases, depends on the advantage possessed by certain individuals over others of the same sex and species solely in respect to the question of mating.
In the same volumes with the 'Descent of Man' Darwin included his admirable treatise on sexual selection.
The germ of the doctrine of sexual selection is to be found, like so many other of Charles Darwin's theories, in a prophetic passage of his grandfather's 'Zoonomia.
Only with caution and anxiety, indeed, may one venture before a lay audience to use Darwin's phrase, "sexual selection.
In society to-day, what one may call the incidence of parenthood, upon which all the future necessarily depends, is determined by nothing other than the humanised form of what Darwin called "sexual selection.
Hence he was led to study in detail the effects of sexual selection, especially as applicable to man.
On the Modification of a Race of Syrian Street Dogs by means of Sexual Selection.
A popular scientific lecture upon the Darwinian Theory of Development by Sexual Selection.
Admitting, as all must, the fact of sexually distinct ornamentation, he demurs to the conclusion that they have been produced by sexual selection.
Next he tells us that it was the case of the Argus pheasant, so admirably worked out by Darwin, that first shook his faith in sexual selection.
If so, sexual selection must be conducive to the stability of species.
Here, then, is a clear example of sexual selection.
Professor Karl Pearson has spent much time in trying to discover whether there is such a thing as sexual selection--what we may call unconscious selection--among human beings.
My belief in it, however, is contingent on my general beliefs in sexual selection.
I doubt whether my notes would be of any use to you, and as far as I remember they are chiefly on sexual selection.
I have a good many facts which make me believe in sexual selection as applied to man, but whether I shall convince anyone else is very doubtful.
If anyone objected to male butterflies having been made beautiful by sexual selection, and asked why should they not have been made beautiful as well as their caterpillars, what would you answer?
Erotic symbolism is founded on the factor of individual taste in beauty; it arises as a specialized development of that factor, but it is, nevertheless, incorrect to merge it in sexual selection.
The attractive characteristics of a beloved woman or man, from the point of view of sexual selection, are a complex but harmonious whole leading up to a desire for the complete possession of the person who displays them.
Fetichism Not Covering the Whole Ground of Sexual Selection.
In considering the phenomena of sexual selection in a previous volume,[2] it was found that there are four or five main factors in the constitution of beauty in so far as beauty determines sexual selection.
He is more puzzled over this problem of divestiture than any other, and finds the solution of it only in "sexual selection.
But the law of sexual selection, as treated by the evolutionists, is not scientifically accurate, nor is it true in fact.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexual selection" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
