Man's Place in Nature

by Huxley, Thomas H.

• ISBN13: 9780486432731
• ISBN10: 0486432734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-22
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his impassioned defense of evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley published this, his most famous book, just a few years after Darwin's The Origin of Species. Unlike Origin, this book focuses on human ancestry and offers a concise, nontechnical survey of mid-nineteenth-century knowledge about primate and human paleontology and ethology. It concurs with Darwin's assertion of the absence of a physiologic and psychic structural line of demarcation between humans and apes, and ventures even further, applying the principles of evolution directly to the human race. A landmark of scientific progress, this immensely readable book reflects the stylistic gifts that made its author a popular public speaker.

Table of Contents

On the Natural History of the Man-Like Apes	p. 9
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals	p. 71
On some Fossil Remains of Man	p. 139
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