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The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution Hardcover - 2013
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- Title The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- Author Henry Gee
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Qj18
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226284880 / 0226284883
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.36 x 0.73 in (23.44 x 16.15 x 1.85 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Human evolution, Human beings
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013016599
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.938
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- Choice, 04/01/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal, 10/01/2013, Page 99
- Publishers Weekly, 08/05/2013, Page 0
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New. 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. Human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that can infect scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have…
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