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Author Parker, Sue Taylor.

Title Darwin's legacy : scenarios in human evolution / Sue Taylor Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African archaeology series
African archaeology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-242) and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Human evolution.
Human evolution.
Human beings -- Evolution.
Human beings.
Evolution.
Biological Evolution.
Hominidae.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jaffe, Karin Enstam, 1971-
Other Form: Print version: Parker, Sue Taylor. Darwin's legacy. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, ©2008 9780759103153 (DLC) 2007048162 (OCoLC)182962871
ISBN 9781461647669 (electronic book)
1461647665 (electronic book)
9780759103153
0759103151
9780759103160
075910316X