Human Evolution
A Guide to the Debates
Published on 23. November 2004
368 pages
978-1-85109-423-3 (ISBN)
Description
A fascinating and wide-ranging look at the controversies surrounding the search for the origins of the human species.
Written for those new to the subject, Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates presents the remarkable history of our understanding of human origins as it developed from the 1800s to the present. Most works on this topic focus narrowly on one individual, theory, or debate. In contrast, Human Evolution draws from a wide range of sources to offer a fully rounded portrait of the entire field.
The chapters of the book follow a basic chronological order covering the issues, personalities, and discoveries that are central to the questions and controversies surrounding human evolution. The coverage draws from a wide range of associated topics and examines not only controversies of a religious nature but also those that have little to do with religion, allowing readers to weigh the information, come to their own conclusions, and even begin their own debates.
Written for those new to the subject, Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates presents the remarkable history of our understanding of human origins as it developed from the 1800s to the present. Most works on this topic focus narrowly on one individual, theory, or debate. In contrast, Human Evolution draws from a wide range of sources to offer a fully rounded portrait of the entire field.
The chapters of the book follow a basic chronological order covering the issues, personalities, and discoveries that are central to the questions and controversies surrounding human evolution. The coverage draws from a wide range of associated topics and examines not only controversies of a religious nature but also those that have little to do with religion, allowing readers to weigh the information, come to their own conclusions, and even begin their own debates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Illustrations
33 bw illus
File size
4,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-85109-423-3 (9781851094233)
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11/2004
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Brian Regal teaches American history and history of science at TCI College of Technology in New York, NY.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Difficult Ancestry
- 1 The Rock of Ages and the Age of Rocks
- Religion and Geology
- Early Clues
- The Question of Race
- Human Evolution
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 2 The First Fossils
- The Neanderthal Man
- Skulls
- La Chapelle-aux-Saints
- Impostors and Poseurs
- Java Man
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 3 The Asia Hypothesis
- Early Theories
- The Occult Connection
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Peking Man
- The Great Disappearing Act
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 4 Africa
- Taung Child
- Louis Leakey
- The Hominid Gang
- Tough Tuff
- Lucy
- Footprints
- Back to Olduvai
- Turkana Boy
- The Scientist as Hero
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 5 Intangibles
- The Evolutionary Synthesis and Cladistics
- Ways of Thinking
- Walking
- Cognition and Language
- The Mind's Big Bang
- The Artistic Turn
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 6 The Peopling of the Americas
- Armchair Speculations
- The Mound Builders
- Glacial Man
- The Folsom Blues
- Trouble in Paradigms
- The Dating Game
- Kennewick Man
- Native Ideas
- Clovis and Beyond
- Further Reading
- 7 Picturing the Caveman
- The Bible
- The Monstrous Races
- The Neanderthals Appear
- Charles R. Knight and Anatomical Accuracy
- Popular Culture
- Three-Dimensional Presentations
- The Problem of Hair
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 8 Alternative Theories
- Eugenics
- Romantic Genocide
- The Aquatic Ape
- Bigfoot and the Anomalous Primates
- Hidden History
- Devolution
- Space Brothers
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 9 A Question of Relations
- The Multiregional Hypothesis and Eve
- The Bottleneck
- Getting out of Africa
- Who was Homo ergaster?
- A Barrelful of Hominids
- More Discoveries
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 10 The Elusive Hand of God
- Human Evolution in America
- The Scopes Monkey Trial
- After Scopes
- Man Tracks and Fossil Hammers
- Creationism Evolving
- More Monkey Trials
- Keeping a Scorecard
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Excerpts of Primary Sources
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Index
