Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins - Brossura

Morgan, Elaine

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ISBN 10: 0285629964 ISBN 13: 9780285629967

Casa editrice: Souvenir Press, 1990

Riassunto

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.

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Product Description:

An account of what is known as the 'Aquatic Ape' thesis in which Elaine Morgan challenges the traditional theories of evolution.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Souvenir Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0285629964
• ISBN 13: 9780285629967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212