Illuminating human evolution : 150 years after Darwin / Jaume Bertranpetit, Juli Peretó, editors.
Bertranpetit, Jaume, editor.; Peretó, Juli G., editor.
2022
GN281.4
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Title Illuminating human evolution : 150 years after Darwin / Jaume Bertranpetit, Juli Peretó, editors.
Uniform Title Iluminando la evolución humana. English.
ISBN 9789811932465 (electronic bk.)
9811932468 (electronic bk.)
9789811932458
981193245X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3246-5
Published Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Language Note Translated from Spanish.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-3246-5 doi
Call Number GN281.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.93/8
Summary This book presents a series of perspectives showing the current knowledge about human evolution. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which he explicitly addresses the natural origin of the human species, this collective work reviews current and diverse aspects of human evolution: from psychology, linguistics, genomics, paleontology, artistic expression or sexual selection. It also offers a historical, social and ideological context of what is often considered to be Darwin's second great work after The Origin of Species. Although current research is concentrated largely on fossils and genomes, this book also deals with the main points Darwin centered his attention on; comparative morphology and psychology, and sexual selection. It also covers other new aspects, such as the origin of art, social structure and social learning. With contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the book guides readers to the study of the social context of Darwin and his time, and the state of the art of studies on human evolution and sexual selection, considering all aspects that Darwin examined, including those that emerged later and now are important disciplines in our understanding of our own evolution. The English translation of parts of this book from its Spanish original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
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Added Author Bertranpetit, Jaume, editor.
Peretó, Juli G., editor.
Series Evolutionary studies.
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Chapter 1
Light would be thrown: human evolution one hundred and fifty years after Darwin
Chapter 2. The historical background to Darwins Descent of Man
Chapter 3.Ways of seeing the world: Darwin and the first Victorian generation
Chapter 4. The problem of design in the Darwinian proposal: A historical overview
Chapter 5. Darwin under suspicion: The representation of Darwinism in the newspaper ABC (1909-1982)
Chapter 6.The Descent of Man: Darwin and psychology
Chapter 7.Human evolution. The linguistic evidence
Chapter 8.Human evolution in Eurasia: The fossils that Darwin did not know
Chapter 9. Human evolution: The genomic evidence
Chapter 10.The adaptations that made us human: Morphology
Chapter 11.The adaptations that have made us human: The genome
Chapter 12. How do we humans evolve?
Chapter 13. Art as a human element
Chapter 14.Sexual selection: Following Darwin's legacy
Chapter 15. Genetic and cultural evolution of mate choice
Chapter 16.How past shapes future: The biological future of humankind.

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