Darwin's Legacy Scenarios in Human Evolution

DarwinOs 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 DarwinOs ideas and those of modern researchers are striking.

Karin Enstam Jaffe is associate professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University in California.

List of Sidebars
Background
Scenarios in Human Evolution: Science or Fiction?	p. 3
Guidelines for Modeling Human Evolution	p. 13
Who Were Our Ancestors?	p. 25
Origins Models
Origins of Human Subsistence	p. 45
Origins of Bipedalism	p. 67
Origins of Human Life History	p. 83
Origins of Human Bodily Displays	p. 105
Origins of Language	p. 131
Origins of Human Mentality	p. 155
Origins of Cultures	p. 185
Epilogue: What about Bonobos?	p. 205
References	p. 209
Index	p. 243
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Darwin's Legacy Scenarios in Human Evolution

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