A Most Interesting Problem What Darwin s Descent of Man Got Right Wrong About Human Evolution

In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist." A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science communicators to investigate what Darwin got right--and what he got wrong--about the origin, history, and biological variation of humans. The book draws on the latest discoveries in fields such as genetics, paleontology, bioarchaeology, anthropology, and primatology. This compelling and accessible book tackles the very subjects Darwin explores in Descent, including the evidence for human evolution, our place in the family tree, the origins of civilization, human races, and sex differences.

About the author

Jeremy DeSilva is associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He lives in Norwich, Vermont. Twitter @desilva_jerry

Summary

Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science

Additional text

"An excellent distillation of the 150-year history of the science and politics of this field."---Rob Barton, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Product details

• Assisted by: Jeremy DeSilva (Editor), E. Janet Browne (Introduction), Janet Browne (Introduction)
• Authors: Jeremy (EDT)/ Browne Desilva, Jeremy DeSilva
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.01.2021
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780691191140
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19114-0
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm
• Subjects: Sex, Charles Darwin, competition, Ernst Haeckel, Embryo, Human, Darwin, Evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, homo sapiens, Gene, SCIENCE / History, Anatomy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Writing, female, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Essays, Biology, Editing, On the Origin of Species, Thomas Henry Huxley, Hominini, Homo Erectus, Racism, Scientist, History of Science, homo, Maria Popova, australopithecus, Orangutan, Mammal, Life sciences: general issues, Neanderthal, Evolutionary Biology, Human biology, Natural selection, Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, bonobo, Organism, chimpanzee, paleoanthropology, ardipithecus, cerebral cortex, Vertebrate, heredity, eugenics, Sperm, Darwinism, comparative anatomy, sexual selection, sexual dimorphism, Mate Choice, genetic drift, mating, australopithecus afarensis, hominidae, biologist, Brain size, Sex organ, Princeton University Press, Race (human categorization), Common descent, Louis Leakey, angela saini, Human evolution (origins of society and culture), Stone tool, Human skin color, Canine tooth, Homo naledi, bipedalism, Janet Browne, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, geneticist, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex