Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates

by Jos Verhulst
ISBN: 9780932776297
Publisher: Adonis Press
Format: Paperback

Price: £25.00

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Subtitle: 'Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology'

In this book, Jos Verhulst expands on the evolutionary theory first proposed by Louis Bolk. The theory is based on the premise that aspects of the individual creatures' development -- from juveniles to adults -- are also at work in animal evolution as a whole.

Verhulst shows that, unlike other primates -- who start out with a rather humanlike form but become, say, apes -- humans retain their original fetal form. Standing Darwinism on its head, he argues that humans have not descended from apes, but rather that apes have evolved by diverging from a humanlike prototype.

He also proposes that the gradually emerging human prototype is the driving force, and central trunk, of the evolutionary tree -- the wellspring from which the animal world has sprung.

Extent: 432 pages
Size: 221 x 156 mm
Illustrations: 177 line drawings

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