The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol 2
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol 2
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10.1037/12294-000
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2019-02
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C. Darwin
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C. Darwin
1981年，查尔斯·达尔文的《人类的起源》出版110年后，重新出版了这本书，原因是它解决了许多生物学家、心理学家、人类学家、社会学家和哲学家此时此刻都在思考的问题。达尔文的天才之处在于，他的思想虽然是用维多利亚时代的从容散文来包装的，但现在几乎和它们最初出版时一样现代。在这篇简短的导言中，我们的目的是指出这本书在它所处的时代的地位，指出达尔文的评论和问题与当今研究的那些领域特别相关，并确定他的知识缺乏（特别是在遗传学方面）对他的解释造成了限制。下降（我们以后将这样称呼它）在达尔文的经典著作中无疑仅次于《起源》，因此，这里所考察的基础在其他著作中也有更深入的论述：格鲁伯和巴雷特仔细分析了达尔文关于这个问题的思想的发展，特别是反映在所谓的M和N笔记本中的思想;吉斯林的《达尔文方法的胜利》对达尔文的一般工作方法有深刻的描述，第九章特别与《下降》有关;
THE REASON for reissuing Charles Darwin's Descent of Man in 1981, one hundred and ten years after its first appearance, is that it addresses an extraordinary number of problems that are, at this moment, on the minds of many biologists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers. It is the genius of Darwin that his ideas, clothed as they are in unhurried Victorian prose, are almost as modern now as they were when they were first published.In this brief introduction, our aims are to indicate the place the book held in its own time, to point out those areas of present-day inquiry where Darwin's comments and questions are particularly relevant, and to identify where his lack of knowledge (particularly in genetics) imposed limitations on his interpretations. The Descent (as we shall henceforth refer to it) is unquestionably sec-ond only to the Origin in the Darwinian canon, and the ground surveyed here is accordingly covered in much greater depth in other works: Gruber and Barrett have given a careful analysis of the development of Darwin's ideas on this subject, especially as reflected in the socalled M and N notebooks; Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method is an insightful account of Dar-win's general method of working, with Chapter 9 par-ticularly relevant to the Descent; and the collection of