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Evidence as to man's place in nature
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the … |
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Demonic males
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Dale Peterson,Richard Wrangham |
Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Drawing on the latest discoveries about human evolution and about our closes… |
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Shaping humanity
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John Gurche |
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordina… |
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A Brain for All Seasons
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William H. Calvin |
"The earth's climate does great flip-flops every few thousand years. Our ancestors lived through hundreds of such abrupt episodes since the more gradual Ice Ages began two and a half million years ag… |
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The human lineage
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Matt Cartmill |
"The Human Lineage focuses on the last ten million years of human history, from the hominoid radiations of the Miocene to the emergence and diversification of modern humanity. It draws upon the fossi… |
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Why us?
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James Le Fanu |
Describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of the brain-- questions that su… |
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When Culture and Biology Collide
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Euclid O. Smith |
"Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Why do we line up to buy greasy fast food that is terrible for our bodies? Why do we take the potentially lethal risk of cosmetic surgery to have a s… |
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The Last Neanderthal
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Ian Tattersall |
Scientists have long known that the popular image of the Neanderthal as a primitive, hairy, heavily browed, club-wielding brute is not supported by the fossil evidence. But to date, no such consensus… |
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