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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

By Charles Lyell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780511693847, 9781108003971
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511693847
Google Books ID
u5zfPwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10568033 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences
Edition
1
Pages
541\541
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is remembered today as much for his profound influence on the young Charles Darwin as for his own work as a geologist: Darwin read the three volumes of his Principles of Geology (1830-3) as they came out, and was greatly interested in Lyell's theory of the huge effects over geological time of an accumulation of tiny, almost unobservable changes. The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man was published in 1863, and went into three editions in that year alone. The work synthesises the then existing evidence for the earliest humans in Europe and North America and - as indicated by its subtitle, With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation - discusses Darwin's theory and 'the bearing of this hypothesis on the different races of mankind and their connection with other parts of the animal kingdom.'

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