Scars of Evolution
Title | Scars of Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Morgan |
Publisher | Souvenir Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2012-04-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0285641328 |
In this lively and controversial book Elaine Morgan presents a challenging interpretation to the question of human evolution. With brilliant logic she argues that our hominid ancestors began to evolve in response to an aquatic environment. Millions of years ago something happened that caused our ancestors to walk on two legs, to lose their fur, to develop larger brains and learn how to speak. Elaine Morgan discovers what this event was by studying the many incongruous flaws in the physiological make-up of humans. The human body is liable to suffer from obesity, lower back pain and acne. In support of her aquatic ape hypothesis she points out the flaws in our physiological make-up: the difficulties of erect bipedalism, our hairlessness and fat-layers, our preference for face to face sex and the way we breathe. Are these flaws a record of the history of the species, the 'scars' of evolution that are clues to earlier stages of evolution? Morgan establishes the origins of the evolutionary path that separated humans from other animals and questions the theories currently accepted by science. Did our ancestors adapt to an aquatic environment that subsequently dried out? Elaine Morgan has made the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis a plausible alternative to conventional theories of evolution and in The Scars of Evolution she brings a real understanding of who humans are and where they came from.
The Scars of Human Evolution
Title | The Scars of Human Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Wilton Marion Krogman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 5 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Scars of Evolution
Title | The Scars of Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Morgan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | Human body |
ISBN | 9780197701959 |
The Scars of Evolution
Title | The Scars of Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Morgan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780195094312 |
Popular account of what is known as the 'aquatic ape' thesis.
A Story of Us
Title | A Story of Us PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Newson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0190883200 |
Changes in the environment drive evolution, and evidence suggests that our ancestors evolved to use cultural adaptations to survive environmental fluctuations of great severity. In A Story of Us, Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson explain the evidence and ideas that provide an account of how they coped, using short descriptive stories to illustrate life at different stages of our evolutionary history.
Human Evolution and Male Aggression
Title | Human Evolution and Male Aggression PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1621968073 |
The Descent of the Child
Title | The Descent of the Child PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Morgan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
The Descent of the Child tells the story of the development of a human child from the moment of insemination to puberty. In the process, Morgan develops a stunning theory of the origins of human intelligence, arguing that our capacity for intelligence is a by-product of evolving babyhood. Uniquely among primates, Homo sapiens are born with considerable struggle, emerge wholly helpless, and continue to be dependent for a long time afterwards - only their eyes, faces, and vocal cords work. They don't know that they're not always going to be like that, Morgan posits, but, bent on survival, they try to manipulate their parents or other caregivers to do things that the babies' can't do for themselves. These early struggles, according to Morgan, provide our formative intellectual activity. It is in infancy that we really learn to think and to question. It explores not only the biological perspectives but the social ones: the change in women's role, over-population, birth control, fertility problems and the break-up of the nuclear family. The Descent of the Child should be read by parents (both new and soon-to-be) as well as anyone interested in child development or human evolution.