21L.448J | Fall 2010 | Undergraduate

Darwin and Design

Video Lectures

Lecture 14: Darwin's "The Descent of Man" (1871)‏ and Human Culture

Topics: Darwin’s The Descent of Man (1871)‏ and Human Culture

  1. Darwin and the Fuegians
  2. Neander valley discoveries
  3. T. H. Huxley
  4. Charles Lyell
  5. Edward Tylor and the natural origins of culture
  6. Sexual selection
  7. Human characteristics
  8. Human evolution
  9. Paleoanthropology

Instructor: Prof. James Paradis

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