A Mutant Ape? The Origin of Man's Descent Revised Version Edition Contributor(s): Pitman, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1999966457 ISBN-13: 9781999966454 Publisher: Merops Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Theory - Philosophy - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
Series: Cosmic Connections |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.68 lbs) 228 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume is the umbilical offshoot of its 'mother book', Science and the Soul. Both are truly original works. We begin by linking with the latter. Then, using facts from palaeoanthropology, biology (classical and molecular), information theory, design theory and philosophy, A Mutant Ape? assesses the two main interpretations of your human origin. The simple difference between these interpretations is identified. So also are the differences between man and ape. Thence the book follows the course of palaeoanthropological history until the second world war and deals with each main character in the order of its scientific discovery. After the war things become, with more workers in the field, more complex. Finds worldwide are covered and various theories seeking to locate human emergence are described and criticised. These include an account of the recent impact of genetics before, at last, we both turn to Australia and return to Europe for the summing up. Read thoroughly and by the end what will you think? The books Adam and Evolution and A Potted Grammar of Natural Dialectic may further help to clarify the issue.
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Contributor Bio(s): Pitman, Michael: - M.A. (Oxon) in Classics: B.A. (Open University) Science. Humanities and Science Teacher (with emphasis on Biology). The author has lived practically his whole life in Cambridge, UK and,, from youth, been interested in the integration without prejudice of mankind's perennial disciplines of philosophy, science and religion. He has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, N. Africa and N. America and is familiar with the different popular and philosophical mind-sets involved. |