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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 15, 2013
Pages
203
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226284880
ISBN-10
0226284883
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Original list price
$26.00
Other format details
university press
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates | The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will | The Neanderthals Rediscovered | Evolutionary Psychology
Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates | The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will | The Neanderthals Rediscovered | Evolutionary Psychology
Summaries and Reviews
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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. 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.
Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Far from being a quirk of religious fundamentalism, human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that also infects 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. He starts with bipedality, which he shows could have arisen entirely by accident, as a by-product of sexual selection, moves on to technology, large brain size, intelligence, language, and, finally, sentience. He reveals each of these attributes to be alive and well throughout the animal world—they are not, indeed, unique to our species.
The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution—the key is not what’s missing, but how we’re linked.
The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution—the key is not what’s missing, but how we’re linked.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 15, 2013); titled "The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution"
9780226284880 | details & prices | 203 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $26.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (April 29, 2015); titled "The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution"
9780226271200 | details & prices | 203 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
With H. O. Peitge (other contributor) |
from Springer Verlag (September 1, 1992); titled "Fraktale: Selbstahnlichkeit-Chaosspiel-Dimension : Ein Arbeitsbuch"
9780387557830 | details & prices | List price $15.00
This edition also contains Fraktale: Selbstahnlichkeit-Chaosspiel-Dimension : Ein Arbeitsbuch
This edition also contains Fraktale: Selbstahnlichkeit-Chaosspiel-Dimension : Ein Arbeitsbuch
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