INEVITABLE HUMANS: SIMON CONWAY MORRIS'S EVOLUTIONARY PALEONTOLOGY.

Simon Conway Morris, noted Cambridge University paleontologist, argues that in evolutionary natural history humans (or beings rather like humans) are an inevitable outcome of the developing speciating processes over millennia; humans are“inherent” in the system. This claim, in marked contrast to cla...

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Publicado en:Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 221 - 231
Autor principal: Rolston, Holmes
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Publicado: Open Library of Humanities Mar2005
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