Darwin's legacy : scenarios in human evolution / Sue Taylor Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe
- Author
- Parker, Sue Taylor
- Published
- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2008]
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Jaffe, Karin Enstam, 1971-
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Scenarios in human evolution : science or fiction? -- Guidelines for modeling human evolution -- Who were our ancestors? -- Origins of human subsistence -- Origins of bipedalism -- Origins of human life history -- Origins of human bodily displays -- Origins of language -- Origins of human mentality -- Origins of cultures -- Epilogue : what about bonobos?
- Summary
- Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about human evolution, which have been developed and debated since Darwin published The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781461647669 (electronic bk.)
1461647665 (electronic bk.)
1299453449
9781299453449
9780759103153
0759103151
9780759103160
075910316X - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-242) and index.
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