Darwin's Legacy

Sue Taylor Parker is emeritus professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University. Karin Enstam Jaffe is associate professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University.

• Part 1 Part I. BackgroundChapter 2 Chapter 1. Scenarios in Human Evolution: Science or Fiction?Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Guidelines for Modeling Human EvolutionChapter 4 Chapter 3. Who Were Our Ancestors?Part 5 Part II. Origins ModelsChapter 6 Chapter 4. Origins of Human SubsistenceChapter 7 Chapter 5. Origins of BipedalismChapter 8 Chapter 6. Origins of Human Life HistoryChapter 9 Chapter 7. Origins of Human Bodily DisplaysChapter 10 Chapter 8. Origins of LanguageChapter 11 Chapter 9. Origins of Human MentalityChapter 12 Chapter 10. Origins of Cultures

Sue Taylor Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe have given us a lively and illuminating history of how scholars have interpreted the many 'no-longer-missing links' that have been discovered since Darwin's day. A contentious dialogue of competing views on the origins of language, bipedalism, sociality, cognition, and culture, Darwin's Legacy provides a much-needed overview of what we think we know about how we got here.