ABSTRACT
The absence of hair on the body is to a certain extent a secondary sexual character; for in all parts of the world women are less hairy than men. Civilized men are largely attracted by the mental charms of women, by their wealth, and especially by their social position; for men rarely marry into a much lower rank. The old traveller Chardin, in describing the Persians, says their blood is now highly refined by frequent intermixtures with the Georgians and Circassians, two nations which surpass the entire world in personal beauty. The causes which are prevent the action of Sexual Selection with savages. The chief causes are, communal marriages or promiscuous intercourse, the consequences of female infanticide, early betrothals, and the low estimation in which women are held, as mere slaves. The semi-human progenitors of man, like their allies the Quadrumana, will almost certainly have been thus modified.
