Rethinking Human Evolution Schwartz Jeffrey H.Pevná vazba
Rethinking Human Evolution Schwartz Jeffrey H.Pevná vazba Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.The…
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Rethinking Human Evolution Schwartz Jeffrey H.Pevná vazba
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis interpreted as supporting evidence for the presumed lineage of human ancestry. Is paleoanthropology an evolutionary science? We might wonder why we should pursue new inquiries if we already know the story.
In this volume, contributors from disciplines that range from paleoanthropology to philosophy of science consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. Are analyses of human evolution biological? All of the contributors reflect on their own research and its disciplinary context, considering how their fields of inquiry can move