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Darwin s Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex characters, language and culture that anthropologists and psychologists published between 1950 and 2006. It evaluates ideas about hunting and scavenging, aimed throwing, primitive warfare, aquatic life, courtship, and sign language in light of modern data on genetics, stone tools, fossils, and primate behavior. Parallels between Darwin s ideas and those of modern researchers are striking.
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Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about the origins of uniquely human characteristics from bipedalism to language, male and female secondary sex characteristics to culture, and evaluates them in light of recent knowledge about hominid fossils, archaeology, and primate behavior.
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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.