...exclusively to the male sex. Thus, when Darwin stated that through his theory of natural selection "much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," he referred to both humans in general and men in particular. Descent of Man minimizes the definition...

...biological adaptation should reach even to the most sacred aspect of humanity — the mind itself: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. (1859: 488) Today, evolutionary psychologists and related specialists are indeed demonstrating the...

...This passage serves to describe Wharton's tenuous and prospective delineation of the human psyche: "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (3). Darwin's statement is relevant to Wharton's extension of his ideas into a cultural space, for...

...fleeting glimpse of the possibilities for understanding the human mind offered by evolutionary theory: 'psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man It is worth emphasizing that Spencer and Lewes conceive of the mind within broadly the same framework,...

...claim: "I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based on new foundations, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin 1859). Unfortunately, most of Darwin's writings on the expression of emotion were heavily anecdotal...

...Darwin only addressed the issue of human evolution toward the end of The Origin. He predicted that "much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin nd [1859]:373), and waited until 1871 to address the topic himself. In The Descent of Man,...

...they can be made so, genealogies" (486). Psychology, he says, "will be based on a new foundation," and "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (488). Moreover, rather than evolution lowering the dignity of man, non-human animals will instead...

...indeed part of the story, in the understatement of the nineteenth century, he wrote finally: "Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." And with that, the floodgates were opened, and one and all — starting with "Darwin's bulldog," Thomas...

...Species, Charles Darwin famously wrote this concerning the implications of his views for human evolution: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. (1859, 488) The last sentence is perhaps the most famous in the Origin, since it alone concerns human...

...hinted at it in the famed Origin of Species; his only remark on the subject was: In the distant future 1 see open fields for far more important researches....Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.45 Descent of Man offered a comprehensive theory of evolutionary psychology, and it even included...