 | Susan G. Bell, Karen M. Offen - Social Science - 1983 - 588 pages
...qualities. Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Linda Marie Fedigan - Science - 1992 - 456 pages
...speculation: Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | James R. Mensch - Philosophy - 1996 - 324 pages
...460). 33. Darwin in a sense goes further when he writes: "It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Simon G. Sheppard - Man-woman relationships - 1998 - 56 pages
...offspring... Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is indeed fortunate that the law of equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Dale Spender - Educational equalization - 2001 - 384 pages
.... . Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Steve Jones - Science - 2003 - 280 pages
...leader: "Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade - Nature - 2003 - 548 pages
...In the context of human sexual selection, Darwin (1871) stated that "It is fortunate that the law of equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Cheryl Brown Travis - Philosophy - 2003 - 468 pages
...surprised that even greater differences had not been evolved. "It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 253 pages
...one of Darwin's more condescending statements that " '[i]t is indeed fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of char-acters to both sexes prevails...with mammals, otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 253 pages
...one of Darwin's more condescending statements that " '[i]t is indeed fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails...with mammals, otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the... | |
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Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails with mammals ; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to... 
