The geological evidence of the antiquity of man / / Charles Lyell

• Autore: Lyell Charles, Sir, <1797-1875.>
• Pubblicazione: Mineola, N.Y., : Dover Publications, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Disciplina: 569.9
• Soggetto topico: Human beings - Origin; Glacial epoch; Human evolution; Evolution (Biology); Evolution
• Note generali: This edition originally published: London : J.M. Dent & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1914.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER II. RECENT PERIOD-DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS-SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS; CHAPTER III. FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD; CHAPTER IV. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN BELGIAN CAVERNS; CHAPTER V. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES; CHAPTER VI. POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS; CHAPTER VII. PEAT AND POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME ; CHAPTER VIII. POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMMECHAPTER IX. WORKS OF ART IN POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND; CHAPTER X. CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD; CHAPTER XI. AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUT IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI, DISCUSSED; CHAPTER XII. ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO THE EXISTING FAUNA AND FLORA; CHAPTER XIII. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE ; CHAPTER XIV. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPECHAPTER XV. EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL RELATION TO THE HUMAN PERIOD; CHAPTER XVI. HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE; CHAPTER XVII. POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND DRIFT STRATA IN THE ISLAND OF MÖEN, IN DENMARK; CHAPTER XVIII. THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA; CHAPTER XIX. RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY; CHAPTER XX. THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION ; CHAPTER XXI. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTIONCHAPTER XXII. OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED; CHAPTER XXIII. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED; CHAPTER XXIV. BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia.
• Titolo autorizzato: The geological evidence of the antiquity of man
• ISBN: 1-280-19123-6; 9786610191239; 0-203-48947-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808016903321
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