Human evolution : a guide to the debates
"The history of exploring our evolutionary origins is filled with passionate debates, fascinating personalities, intellectual wrong turns, outright hoaxes, and serendipitous breakthroughs. Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates charts that history in an authoritative and engaging way, tracing the "evolution" of the controversies surrounding evolution from the first natural philosophers to the present, as new evidence and new questions about the human family tree continue to emerge." "Most reference works on evolution focus on a single person, theory, or argument. Human Evolution offers a comprehensive, unbiased portrait of the entire field, addressing all aspects of the evolutionary debate - religious, social, political, and scientific. Combining impeccable scholarship and excerpts from primary documents with a wealth of insights into the people behind the arguments, this book provides readers with everything they need to weigh the information, come to their own conclusions, and even begin their own debates."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif., ©2004