A Mutant Ape? The Origin of Man's Descent

by Michael Pitman

Overview

This volume is the umbilical offshoot of its 'mother book', Science and the Soul. Both are truly original works. We begin by linking with the latter. Then, using facts from palaeoanthropology, biology (classical and molecular), information theory, design theory and philosophy, A Mutant Ape? assesses  the two main interpretations of your human origin.

The simple difference between these interpretations is identified. So also are the differences between man and ape. Thence the book follows the course of palaeoanthropological history until the second world war and deals with each main character in the order of its scientific discovery. After the war things become, with more workers in the field, more complex. Finds worldwide are covered and various theories seeking to locate human emergence are described and criticised. These include an account of the recent impact of genetics before, at last, we both turn to Australia and return to Europe for the summing up.

Read thoroughly and by the end what will you think? The books Adam and Evolution and A Potted Grammar of Natural Dialectic may further help to clarify the issue.

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993006760
Publisher:	merops press
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Series:	Cosmic Connections
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

M.A. (Oxon) in Classics: B.A. (Open University) Science. Humanities and Science Teacher (with emphasis on Biology). The author has lived practically his whole life in Cambridge, UK and, , from youth, been interested in the integration without prejudice of mankind's perennial disciplines of philosophy, science and religion. He has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, N. Africa and N. America and is familiar with the different popular and philosophical mind-sets involved.

Table of Contents

Illustrations 1. For Starters 2. Troublesome Irrationality 3. Skew 4. Imperative 5. Cartoons 6. The Imperative of Law 7. Racism, Slavery and All That 8. An Instructive Analogy 9. When Is a Man a Man? 10. Man as Opposed to Ape 11. Fossils (Not Molecules) 12. Ages of Rock 13. Years of Palaeoanthropology 14. Neanderthal 15. Homo erectus/ Java Man Dubois The Selenka Trinil Expedition von Koenigswald's Research 16. Piltdown 17. Homo erectus/ Peking Man 18. Other erecti (upright men) 19. Broken Hill Man 20. Australopithecines (and antecessors) 21. Muddle in the Middle 22. Molecules (Not Fossils) Autosomal DNA Hot-Spots and Humans Human Leukogen Antigen (HLA) Skin Colour Non-protein-coding (ex-junk) DNA Pseudogenes Fusion of Chromosome 2 Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) The Male Chromosome: Y-DNA Mt-DNA 23. African Eve 24. Adam and Evolution Rival Suitors First Principles 25. Mythological Mirage Fossil Catalogue Abbreviations Hominoid Classification Reference Uniformitarian (Evolutionary) Chronology Glossary (see also archaeologyinfo.com) Bibliography