| Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution Contributor(s): Parker, Sue Taylor (Author), Jaffe, Karin Enstam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759103151 ISBN-13: 9780759103153 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $124.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about the origins of uniquely human characteristics from bipedalism to language, male and female secondary sex characteristics to culture, and evaluates them in light of recent knowledge about hominid fossils, archaeology, and primate behavior. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 599.938 |
| LCCN: 2007048162 |
| Series: African Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.31" W x 9.03" (1.20 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |