| Edition |
2d ed., significantly rev. and enl. |
| Description |
436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Man's origins: Beginnings and changes -- Charles Darwin: Life: likenesses and differences -- Charles Darwin: origins -- Charles Darwin: up at last to man -- Lamarck: the scientific opposition -- Giard: shrimps and new evidence -- Cope: fossils and Lamarckism -- De Vries: primroses and mutations -- Mendel: the discovery of heredity -- Haldane: two camps into one -- Fisher: natural selection and chance -- Wright: diversity and drift -- 2. Man's buried record: Dubois and von Koenigswald: Java: pithecanthropus and giants -- Black and Weidenreich: China: the discovery and disappearance of Peking Man -- Dart and Broom: South Africa: ape-man -- 3. A changed theory of man's evolution: Leakeys: East Africa and man -- Knopf: uranium and the age of the Earth -- Oakley: fluorine and the age of early man -- Libby: carbon-14 and the redating of the last 25,000 years -- Washburn: evolution and experiment -- Evolution revised: a new time and a new way. |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Fossil hominids.
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Fossil hominids. |
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