Explaining human origins : myth, imagination, and conjecture / Wiktor Stoczkowski ; translated by Ma...
Explaining human origins : myth, imagination, and conjecture / Wiktor Stoczkowski ; translated by Ma...
Explaining human origins : myth, imagination, and conjecture / Wiktor Stoczkowski ; translated by Mary Turton.
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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Date
2002.
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N599.938/24
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English
French
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ix, 234 p. : charts ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: in which the author briefly explains his aims -- 1. Prehistory and the conditioned imagination -- 2. Anthropogenesis and science -- 3. In search of causes -- 4. Evolutionary mechanisms: the constraints of nature or of imagination? -- 5. A double game.
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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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Summary
Wiktor Stoczkowski, a palaeo-anthropologist, argues that the theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the present day are structurally similar to Western folk theories, and to the speculations of earlier philosophers. Reviewing a remarkable range of thinkers writing in a...
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Explaining human origins : myth, imagination, and conjecture / Wiktor Stoczkowski ; translated by Mary Turton.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-224) and index.
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Translation from the French.
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N599.938/24
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74VvyXd2MjAM
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0521651344 (cased)
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0521651344
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9780521651349 (cased)
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599.938
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991016132379702626
