A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong …
by Browne, Janet, Agustín, Fuentes, Alice, Roberts, Ann, Gibbons, Brian, Hare, Holly, Dunsworth, Janet, Browne, Jeremy M., DeSilva, John, Hawks, Kristina, Killgrove, Michael J., Ryan, Suzana, Herculano-Houzel, Yohannes, Haile-Selassie
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most inte…