The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution Gee Henry
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution Gee Henry The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has…
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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution Gee Henry
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human." In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe.
Far from being a quirk of religious
Accidental Species
Science of Human Evolution
Human Evolution
Animal Species and Evolution
The Origin of Species
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