Charles Sir Lyell
The Antiquity of Man
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664604231
Table of Contents
GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.
CHAPTER 2. — RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS—SWISS
CHAPTER 3. — FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT
CHAPTER 4. — PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN
CHAPTER 5. — PLEISTOCENE PERIOD—FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL
CHAPTER 6. — PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT
CHAPTER 7. — PEAT AND PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME.
CHAPTER 8. — PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY
CHAPTER 9. — WORKS OF ART IN PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND
CHAPTER 10. — CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACES OF SEPULTURE OF THE
CHAPTER 11. — AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF
CHAPTER 12. — ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO
CHAPTER 13. — CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE
CHAPTER 14. — CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE
CHAPTER 15. — EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL
CHAPTER 16. — HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE.
CHAPTER 17. — POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND
CHAPTER 18. — THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA.
CHAPTER 19. — RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY.
CHAPTER 20. — THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION.
CHAPTER 21. — ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL
CHAPTER 22. — OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED.
CHAPTER 23. — ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED
CHAPTER 24. — BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF
NOTES.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate 1. A Village Built on Piles in A Swiss Lake
Figure 7. Valley of the Somme
Figure 8. Flint Implement
Figures 9 and 10. Flint Implements
Figures 11, 12 and 13. Dendrites on Fling Hatchets
Figure 14. Flint Knife Or Flake
Figure 15. Fossils of the White Chalk
Figure 16. Fluvio-marine Strata
Figure 17. Cyrena Fluminalis
Figures 18, 19 and 20. Elephas
Figure 21. Section of Gravel Pit
Figure 23. Section Across Valley of the Ouse
Figure 24. Position of Flint Weapons
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