Charles Darwin’s Sexual Revolution
The potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself.
For more than 150 years Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection has had a bumpy ride. Even more so than natural selection, his major theory of evolution outlined in On the Origin of Species (1859), sexual selection has variously been ignored, maligned, and reinterpreted. Today it remains an important, but contested, arena of scientific endeavour.
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