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Mankind evolving; the evolution of the human species.
Pennsylvania Hospital Library - IPH Collection QH 366 D635m 1962
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LIBRA QH368 .D6
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LIBRA QH368 .D635m 1962
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 1900-1975.
- Series:
- Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures
- Yale University. Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Human beings--Origin.
- Human beings.
- Human genetics.
- Evolution.
- Biological Evolution.
- Genetics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biological Evolution.
- Genetics.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1962.
- Summary:
- Examines both the biological and the cultural aspects of human evolution.
- Contents:
- Biology and culture in human evolution
- Heredity
- Environmentalist thesis and hereditarian antithesis
- Equal but dissimilar
- Heredity of health and disease
- Natural selection and survival of the fit
- The emergence of man
- Human mental faculties and their antecedents
- Polymorphism, class, and caste
- Race
- Evolution in process
- The road traversed and the road ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1963
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mankind evolving.
- ISBN:
- 9780300000702
- 0300000707
- OCLC:
- 327651
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