Illuminating Human Evolution: 150 Years After Darwin - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9811932484 ISBN 13 : 9789811932489

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2023

Synopsis

This book presents a series of perspectives showing the current knowledge about human evolution. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which he explicitly addresses the natural origin of the human species, this collective work reviews current and diverse aspects of human evolution: from psychology, linguistics, genomics, paleontology, artistic expression or sexual selection. It also offers a historical, social and ideological context of what is often considered to be Darwin's second great work after The Origin of Species.

Although current research is concentrated largely on fossils and genomes, this book also deals with the main points Darwin centered his attention on; comparative morphology and psychology, and sexual selection. It also covers other new aspects, such as the origin of art, social structure and social learning. 

With contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the book guides readers to the study of the social context of Darwin and his time, and the state of the art of studies on human evolution and sexual selection, considering all aspects that Darwin examined, including those that emerged later and now are important disciplines in our understanding of our own evolution.

The English translation of parts of this book from its Spanish original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jaume Bertranpetit
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona

Founder Member of the Institut of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC)
Juli Peretó
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of València

Member of Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology research group, I2SysBio (UVEG-CSIC)

Founder co-director I2SysBio (2016-2020)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811932484
• ISBN 13: 9789811932489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 225
• Éditeur: Bertranpetit Jaume, Peretó Juli
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