Overview
- Presents the current and diverse aspects of human evolution
- Offers diverse views from psychology, linguistics, genomics, paleontology, artistic expression and sexual selection
- Contributed by renowned experts
Part of the book series: Evolutionary Studies (EVOLUS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents a series of perspectives showing the current knowledge about human evolution. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which he explicitly addresses the natural origin of the human species, this collective work reviews current and diverse aspects of human evolution: from psychology, linguistics, genomics, paleontology, artistic expression or sexual selection. It also offers a historical, social and ideological context of what is often considered to be Darwin's second great work after The Origin of Species.
Although current research is concentrated largely on fossils and genomes, this book also deals with the main points Darwin centered his attention on; comparative morphology and psychology, and sexual selection. It also covers other new aspects, such as the origin of art, social structure and social learning.
With contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the book guides readers to the study of the social context of Darwin and his time, and the state of the art of studies on human evolution and sexual selection, considering all aspects that Darwin examined, including those that emerged later and now are important disciplines in our understanding of our own evolution.
The English translation of parts of this book from its Spanish original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona
Founder Member of the Institut of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC)
Juli Peretó
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of València
Member of Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology research group, I2SysBio (UVEG-CSIC)
Founder co-director I2SysBio (2016-2020)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Illuminating Human Evolution: 150 Years after Darwin
Editors: Jaume Bertranpetit, Juli Peretó
Series Title: Evolutionary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3246-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3245-8Published: 07 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3248-9Published: 08 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3246-5Published: 06 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2509-484X
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4858
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Anthropology