A Most Interesting Problem What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

Hardcover • 2021 • English

A Most Interesting Problem What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

By Jeremy DeSilva

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"In 1859, Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for biological evolution in his most famous work, On the Origin of Species. However, Origin makes little mention of humans. Despite this, Darwin thought deeply about humans and in 1871 published The Descent of Man, his influential and controversial book in which he applied evolutionary theory to humans and detailed his theory of sexual selection. February 2021 will mark the 150th anniversay of its publication. In [this book], twelve leading anthropol...Show more

Computational biology / bioinformatics

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ISBN

9780691191140

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

A Most Interesting Problem What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

Format

Hardcover

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