Charles Lyell

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work of 1863 synthesises the then existing evidence for the earliest humans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 759g
• ISBN-13: 9781108003971
• ISBN-10: 1108003974
• Artikelnr.: 26897751

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Recent period
3. Fossil human remains and works of art of the recent period
4. Post-pliocene period
5. Post-pliocene period
6. Post-pliocene alluvium and cave deposits with flint implements
7. Peat and post-pliocene alluvium of the valley of the Somme
8. Post-pliocene alluvium with flint implements of the valley of the Somme (concluded)
9. Works of art in Post-pliocene alluvium of France and England
10. Cavern deposits and place of sepulture of the post-pliocene period
11. Age of human fossils of Le Puy in central France and of Natchez on the Mississippi, discussed
12. Antiquity of man relatively to the glacial period and to the existing flora and fauna
13. Chronological relations of the glacial period and the earliest signs of man's appearance in Europe
14. Chronological relations of the glacial period and the earliest signs of man's appearance in Europe (continued)
15. Extinct glaciers of the Alps and their chronological relation to the human period
16. Human remains in the loess, and their probable age
17. Post-glacial dislocations and foldings of the cretaceous and drift strata in the island of Moen, in Denmark
18. The glacial period in North America
19. Recapitulation of geological proofs of man's antiquity
20. Theories of progression and transmutation
21. On the origin of species by variation and natural selection
22. Objections to the hypothesis of transmutation considered
23. Origin and development of languages and species compared
24. Bearing of the doctrine of transmutation on the origin of man, and his place in the creation
Index.