The accidental species : misunderstandings of human evolution
Gee, Henry, 1962-2013
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Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that can infect scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy.
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Author:
Gee, Henry, 1962-, author
Imprint:
Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226284880 (hbk)9780226044989 (ebook)
Language:
English
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