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Human Evolution
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In these selections from Scientific American magazine, Stephen Jay Gould and distinguished colleagues present their influential theories on our species' evolutionary heritage. Gould's introductory essay on the evolution of life sets the stage for the eight million years of hominid history explored in the essays that follow. These describe the emergence of various hominid species and the ebb and flow of their evolution, including the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa and the migrations of ancestral humans to present day habitats. In the concluding essay, William H. Calvin explains how Darwinian processes led to the emergence of language, foresight, and other hallmarks of human intelligence.
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