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The Antiquity of Man
Charles, Sir Lyell
611 pages~12 hr 11 min read31 chapters$4.99
How old is humankind? Sir Charles Lyell weighs the evidence from Danish peat bogs, Swiss lake dwellings, and fossil human bones to push the human story far back into geological time. A landmark that helped a generation grasp deep time. Rigorous and revolutionary. For the reader of science history, the book that stretched our sense of the past.
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- 1THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN
- 2London: Published By J.M. Dent Sons Ltd. And In New York By E.P. Dutton Co. With Introduction And Notes By R.H. Rastall, M.A., F.G.S.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- 5DETAILED LIST OF CONTENTS.
- 6GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.
- 7CHAPTER 1. — INTRODUCTORY.
- 8CHAPTER 2. — RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS—SWISS
- 9CHAPTER 3. — FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT
- 10CHAPTER 4. — PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN
- 11CHAPTER 5. — PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL
- 12CHAPTER 6. — PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT
- 13CHAPTER 7. — PEAT AND PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME.
- 14CHAPTER 8. — PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY
- 15CHAPTER 9. — WORKS OF ART IN PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND
- 16CHAPTER 10. — CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACES OF SEPULTURE OF THE
- 17CHAPTER 11. — AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF
- 18CHAPTER 12. — ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO
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