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Human Evolution: the View from Saturn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Misia Landau
Misia Landau*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Boston University, 232 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215

Abstract

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The evolution of bipedalism is considered a critical step in human evolution. To discover how it occurred, and whether it could have occurred elsewhere in the universe, scientists must study the structure of their theories as well as fossils. In particular, they must determine whether such critical steps are a function of the “data” or of the (often unwitting) use of narrative for, it will be shown, scientists tend to make sense of the past by telling stories in which everything leads up to or away from being human.

Type
Section IV. Universal Aspects of Biological Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 112: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments , 1985 , pp. 213 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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