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" When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably first used his voice in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing, as do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day; and we may... "
Mental Evolution in Man: Origin of Human Faculty - Page 366
by George John Romanes - 1889 - 452 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

1871 - 608 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

1871 - 808 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that. this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving toexpress various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 111

1871 - 860 pages
...in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing; we may conclude from a widely-spread anulogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as lave, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 130-131

1871 - 650 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The Descent of man

Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

1871 - 612 pages
...day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing ; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, trinmph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 21

1872 - 832 pages
...present day, in producing true musical cadences, that is, in singing ; we may conclude, from a indeepread analogy, that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin - 1874 - 840 pages
...instinctive cries, aided by signs and gestures. When we treat of sexual selection wo shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably...do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day ; and wo may conclude from a widely-spread analogy, that this power would have been especial!; exerted during...
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Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter

St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 488 pages
...present day, in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing; we may conclude from a widely-spread analogy that this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes, serving to express various emotions, as love, jealousy, triumph, and serving as a challenge to their...
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