1st Edition
Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind 150 years of Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’
Preface
1. Darwin and the Descent of Man: Great Revolutionary but No Rebel
Michael Ruse
2. Reason and Morality in the Descent of Man
Hayley Clatterbuck
3. Virtues According to Darwin: An Unfinished and Challenging Journey 150 Years Later
Eric Charmetant
4. Selections and Analogies in Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871)
Jonathan Hodge
5. Sexual Selection, By Jean Gayon. An Interview with Victor Petit
An Interview of Jean Gayon with Victor Petit
6. What Distinctions are Usefully Drawn Today Between Natural and Sexual Selection?
Alan Grafen
7. Sexual Selection, Aesthetic Choice and Agency
Hugh Desmond
8. Natural Selection and the Proportion of the Sexes: The Two Conflicting Versions (1871 and 1874)
Charles Darwin
9. Darwin’s Model of Sex Ratio Evolution in the First Edition of Descent of Man and His Mysterious Retraction in the Second
Elliott Sober
10. Darwin’s Retraction on Natural Selection and Sexes in the Descent of Man: A Case Study of Darwin’s Use of Statistical Methodology to Advance His Evolutionary Ideas
André Ariew
11. How Darwin Dismissed His Own Discoveries About Inbreeding and Sex Ratio
Michel Veuille
12. Darwin on the African Ancestry of Humans: Deduction and Intuition
Jorge Martínez Contreras
13. Darwin’s Descent, Prehistoric Archaeology and the Origin of Gender
Claudine Cohen
14. “As Man Advances in Civilisation…”: Darwin on the Expanding Circle of Moral Regard, From His Day to Ours
Gregory Radick
15. Psychology and Social Sciences: Darwinism within the Limits of Simple Reason?
Philippe Huneman
16. Evolutionary Psychology from the Descent of Man To Generalized Darwinism
Agathe Du Crest
Biography
Michel Veuille is Honorary Professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences Lettres (PSL), France, Chair of Integrative Population Biology. As a geneticist he studied sexual selection, then worked in molecular population genetics under the direction of Richard Lewontin. His research focused on the molecular characterization of natural selection in populations. As a historian he worked with Jean Gayon on the history of population genetics.
