The Origin of the Man

by Mikhail Nesturkh
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (2003-05)
ISBN: 1410205770
EAN: 9781410205773
Dewy Decimal #: 576
Paperback: 372 pages
Condition: New
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An unusual approach to human evolution written from the standpoint of dialectical materialism and other Soviet science and political theory. From the author's preface: "The process of anthropogenesis is vastly different from the phylogenic development of any species of the higher vertebrates, even of the apes. The problem, therefore, requires a complex approach employing data established by the social sciences that have Marxist philosophy as their basis. A comprehensive solution of the problem under discussion can only be made from the standpoint of dialectical and historical materialism; Marxism-Leninism has enabled anthropologists to make a profound and truly scientific analysis of the very essence of anthropogenesis. Dialectical materialism, a method the present author has endeavored to apply in his work, is a most powerful weapon in the struggle against idealist concepts of the origin of man."

Chapter topics include:
The Darwin and Other Hypotheses Concerning Anthropogenesis
The Anthropoid Apes and Their Origin
Criticism of the Later Hypotheses Concerning the Origin of Man
Physical Peculiarities of the Human Body and the Emergence of Man
Role of Work and Erect Locomotion
Brain and Higher Nervous Activity
Herd Instinct in Monkeys and Rudimentary Forms of Labor
Palaeanthropological Data on the Making of Man
Earliest Men Pithecantropi
Neanderthalers and their Physical Type
Neanderthalers on USSR Territory
Palestine Neanderthalers
Modern Man
Races of Mankind
Science Against Racism, and many other topics.

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