The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

CHAPTER I.

THE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE.

I. _The True Place of Man in the Animal Kingdom._--Man is a mammiferous, bimanous vertebrate--Biology the starting-point of sociology--The origin of love.

II. _Reproduction._--Nutrition and reproduction--Scissiparity--Budding--Ovulation--Conjugation-- Impregnation--Reproduction in the invertebrates--The entity called Nature--...