{"id":8017,"date":"2009-05-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:05:04","slug":"livres-a-lire-la-filiation-de-lhomme-charles-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/livres-a-lire-la-filiation-de-lhomme-charles-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Livres \u00e0 lire : La Filiation de l&#8217;homme (Charles Darwin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dans <em>L&#8217;Origine des esp\u00e8ces<\/em>, Darwin s&#8217;\u00e9tait gard\u00e9 de parler de l&#8217;homme. Douze ans plus tard, en 1871, il franchit le pas : l&#8217;\u00eatre humain descend, lui aussi, d&#8217;un anc\u00eatre commun avec les grands singes, et ses facult\u00e9s les plus hautes, l&#8217;intelligence, le langage, le sens moral, ont une histoire naturelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le livre est double. La premi\u00e8re partie montre ce que nous partageons avec les autres animaux. La seconde, la plus longue, expose la s\u00e9lection sexuelle : la comp\u00e9tition pour les partenaires, qui explique la queue du paon comme bien des diff\u00e9rences entre m\u00e2les et femelles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darwin y soutient aussi que les instincts sociaux et la sympathie, s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s parce qu&#8217;ils servent le groupe, sont la racine de la morale : une id\u00e9e que l&#8217;on retrouve aujourd&#8217;hui chez Frans de Waal ou dans les travaux sur l&#8217;entraide. Bien des pages ont vieilli, et certaines choquent ; le c\u0153ur de l&#8217;argument tient toujours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voir aussi : <a href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=8016\">L&#8217;Origine des esp\u00e8ces<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=8018\">Devenir humains<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin, John Murray, Londres, 1871 ; en fran\u00e7ais : La Filiation de l&#8217;homme et la s\u00e9lection li\u00e9e au sexe (Syllepse). Fiche : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babelio.com\/livres\/Darwin-La-filiation-de-lhomme-et-la-selection-liee-au-se\/355319\">Babelio<\/a>. Illustration : page de titre de la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition, domaine public, Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans L&#8217;Origine des esp\u00e8ces, Darwin s&#8217;\u00e9tait gard\u00e9 de parler de l&#8217;homme. Douze ans plus tard, en 1871, il franchit le pas : l&#8217;\u00eatre humain descend, lui aussi, d&#8217;un anc\u00eatre commun avec les grands singes, et ses facult\u00e9s les plus hautes, l&#8217;intelligence, le langage, le sens moral, ont une histoire naturelle. Le livre est double. La premi\u00e8re partie montre ce que nous partageons avec les autres animaux. La seconde, la plus longue, expose la s\u00e9lection sexuelle : la comp\u00e9tition pour les&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/livres-a-lire-la-filiation-de-lhomme-charles-darwin\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,280,181,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livres-a-lire","category-sciences","category-theme-anthropologie","category-theme-philosophie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}