Descent_of_Women

Descent of Women The Descent of Woman The Descent of Woman, by Elaine Morgan, tells the idea of the Aquatic Theory of Evolution. According to this theory of evolution, the ape, which man is believed to evolve from, comes down from the trees due to a drought and into the water. While adapting to a new environment, the ape evolved to become more like man. When the drought was over, this ape moved back onto the land and completely evolved into man. Morgan goes into great depth and detail throughout the chapters. She covers each process in the evolving of this species that she feels was wrongly described by past evolutionists. In chapter one, she tells how in the Book of Genesis, it is said that God created man first and woman was created later and was not created as well as man. Because of this, whenever a book is written about man evolving the pronoun ‘he’ is used since man means male and species. This pronoun puts the image of a male in the reader’s head. This is why Morgan chose to use the pronoun ‘she’ and tell the theory of evolution through a female morgan, male, water, chapter, child, because, about, mate, women, tells, species, one, theory, society, man, ape, says, female, evolved, trees, time, don’t, children, began, became, back, two, think, things, same, pleasure, orgasm, order, land, goes, females, evolution, cycle, apes, again, woman, today, shows, pronoun, pill, penis, past, new, moved, mothers