Note 419 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
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The authorities are compared by Westermarck, op. cit., 470; and there is an interesting discussion of this point by Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 223 ff. Cf. Darwin, Descent of Man, chap. viii, 215 ff. Ploss, Das Weib, I, 239-44, gives a comparative view of the notions of various peoples as to the knowledge of sex before the birth of the child.