Dr RL

“the power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other males in battle. LAWS”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“Two distinct elements are included under the term "inheritance"— the transmission, and the development of characters;”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. It is apparently unfelt by savages, except towards their pets. How little the old Romans knew of it is shewn by their abhorrent gladiatorial exhibitions. The very idea of humanity, as far as I could observe, was new to most of the Gauchos of the Pampas. This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man