Descent of Man

In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Intelligent Design: Scientifically and Religiously Bankrupt 2010

In The Descent of Man he wrote that "Those communities which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring."

Eric Michael Johnson: Chimpanzees Prefer Fair Play To Reaping An Unjust Reward 2010

In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Intelligent Design: Scientifically and Religiously Bankrupt 2010

In The Descent of Man he wrote that "Those communities which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring."

Chimpanzees Prefer Fair Play To Reaping An Unjust Reward 2010

In the Descent of Man, Darwin pauses to discuss technical innovation, arguing that successful innovations will usually be imitated, thereby increasing the success of a group as a whole, increasing the size of that group, and consequently increasing the chances of inventive members being born into it (Darwin 1877/2004).

Cultural Evolution Lewens, Tim 2007

Origin of Species_ and _The Descent of Man_ for several previous days, and began to think I had discovered some wandering Jewish lost link between man and the monkey, and that I actually had him or it for a bedfellow; but by the dim light of the car-lamps I managed to see his hands, which had orthodox nails.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Species by means of Natural Selection_, and _The Descent of Man_.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

[89] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, second edition, page 163.

Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921

Even more precious than the pistol and binoculars were his books, an oddly assorted library that included the child's pictorial history already mentioned, Dryden's translation of the _Iliad_, an imperfect copy of _The Three Musketeers_, and _The Descent of Man_.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

_The Descent of Man_; _The Origin of Species_; _Insectivorous

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881