The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man

The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man

Charles Lyell, british lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day (1797-1875)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- INTRODUCTION

-03- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

-04- RECENT PERIOD

-05- FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS, CONTINUED

-06- PLEISTOCENE PERIOD

-07- PLEISTOCENE PERIOD

-08- PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS

-09- PEAT AND PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME

-10- PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS

-11- WORKS OF ART IN PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND

-12- CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACES OF SEPULTURE OF THE PLEISTOCENE PERIOD

-13- AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE

-14- ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD

-15- CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD

-16- CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD

-17- EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS

-18- HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE

-19- POST GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS

-20- THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA

-21- RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY

-22- THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION

-23- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION

-24- OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED

-25- ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED

-26- BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN

-27- NOTES