Evaluating Darwin’s Book on the Descent of Man
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Abstract This is a review of A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution , edited by Jeremy DeSilva. The book has ten chapters, the first seven evaluating updating chapters eighth outlining theory sexual selection, ninth criticizing view how selection shaped human racial divergence, tenth summarizing hominin diversification.
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution: Education and Outreach
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1936-6434', '1936-6426']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-021-00149-9