Human evolution : a guide to the debates /
by Regal, Brian.
Type:
BookSeries: Controversies in science. Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004Description: x, 357 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 1851094180.Subject(s): Human evolution -- Philosophy | Human evolution -- Religious aspects | Human origins | Human beings -- MigrationOnline resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Summary: Traces the history of the study of human evolution through the many debates that surround popular theories and figures from the first natural philosophers to the present.
Introduction -- The rock of ages and the age of rocks -- The first fossils -- The Asia hypothesis -- Africa -- Intangibles -- The peopling of the Americas -- Picturing the cavemen -- Alternative theories -- A question of relations -- The illusive hand of God -- Conclusion.
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Book | NF 599.93 R (Browse shelf) | Available | H038505555 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-313) and index.
Introduction -- The rock of ages and the age of rocks -- The first fossils -- The Asia hypothesis -- Africa -- Intangibles -- The peopling of the Americas -- Picturing the cavemen -- Alternative theories -- A question of relations -- The illusive hand of God -- Conclusion.
Traces the history of the study of human evolution through the many debates that surround popular theories and figures from the first natural philosophers to the present.
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