Comparing Darwin's Of Sexual Selection And Natural Selection

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In Jones short selection of “The Decent of Men”, he is taking Darwin’s theories about “Of Sexual Selection and Natural Selection” and I would say updating them and not creating something altogether new. The difference that I see is that Jones has new information to add because so much time has passed since Darwin wrote his book. We have learned that the population of men is descending, or is not as favorable as it once was by pure observation. Jones takes Darwin’s idea of the battle of men against men, who could produce the most offspring and goes in depth on the topic even proposing a new threat being that men are not battling against themselves but are battling against women. Jones believes that women have become a new threat, because they

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