A Mutant Ape? The Origin of Man's Descent

by Michael Pitman

Overview

This volume is an umbilical offshoot of its 'mother book', Science and the Soul. Both are truly original works. Using facts from palaeoanthropology, biology (classical and molecular), information theory, design theory and philosophy it assesses the two main interpretations of your human origin. Which might be preferable?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993006753
Publisher:	Merops Press
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Series:	Cosmic Connections
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

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