Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 0759103151
- ISBN-13
- 9780759103153
- Series
- Darwin's Legacy
- Category
- Anthropological linguistics
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Authors
- Sue Taylor Parker, Karin Enstam Jaffe
Description
Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about human evolution, which have been developed and debated since Darwin published The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871.
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