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Darwin's Legacy

Scenarios in Human Evolution

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

AvSue Taylor Parker,Karin Enstam Jaffe

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DarwinOs Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex characters, language and culture that anthropologists and psychologists published between 1950 and 2006. It evaluates ideas about hunting and scavenging, aimed throwing, primitive warfare, aquatic life, courtship, and sign language in light of modern data on genetics, stone tools, fossils, and primate behavior. Parallels between DarwinOs ideas and those of modern researchers are striking.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-13
Mått155 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Archaeology Series
Antal sidor262
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759103160

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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.