The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man; The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 (Volume VIII)

Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 5 COPYRIGHT......Page 6 INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME VIII......Page 9 CONTENTS.......Page 12 1. INTRODUCTORY......Page 22 2. RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS-SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS......Page 26 3. FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD,......Page 41 4. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD-BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN BELGIAN CAVERNS.......Page 56 5. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD-FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES.......Page 66 6. POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS.......Page 81 7. PEAT AND POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME.......Page 89 8. POST- PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME,......Page 101 9. WORKS OF ART IN POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.......Page 121 10. CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD.......Page 134 11. AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI, DISCUSSED.......Page 150 12. ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO THE EXISTING FAUNA AND FLORA......Page 158 13. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN’S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE.......Page 176 14. CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN’S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE,......Page 198 15. EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL RELATION TO THE HUMAN PERIOD.......Page 216 16. HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE.......Page 236 17. POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND DRIFT STRATA IN THE ISLAND OF MÖEN, IN DENMARK.......Page 246 18. THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA.......Page 253 19. RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN’S ANTIQUITY.......Page 267 20. THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION.......Page 276 21. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION.......Page 289 22. OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED.......Page 299 23. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED.......Page 316 24. BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION.......Page 326 INDEX......Page 349