Creator
Charles Darwin
Title
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Coverage
London
Publisher
John Murray
Date
1871
Subject
2 vols., Bound in original green publishers’ cloth.
Description
First edition, second issue, with the list of nine additional works by Darwin on the verso of the title-page in place of the errata.
In The Descent of Man, Darwin applied his theories of evolution and sexual selection to the human species for the first time. Earlier works, such as On the Origin of Species (1859) focused exclusively on the plant and animal world. Darwin’s first published use of the word ‘evolution’ appears in this work.