The Red Ape : Orangutans and Human Origins
The Red Ape : Orangutans and Human Origins
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红猿：猩猩和人类起源
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1987
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J. Schwartz
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人类学家杰弗里·施瓦茨（Jeffrey Schwartz）提出了他颇具争议但极具洞察力的理论，即我们现存的近亲是猩猩，而不是黑猩猩或其他非洲猿。 }我们都听说黑猩猩是我们的近亲 - 事实上，它们 98% 的基因与我们相同。但什么证据支持这些经常重复的老生常谈呢？体质人类学家杰弗里·施瓦茨总结道，“很少”。施瓦茨以敏锐的洞察力推翻了有关猿类与人类家族关系的传统智慧，对化石证据、现代解剖学、生理学以及 DNA 进行了全新的检验。他认为，人类的近亲不是黑猩猩或其他非洲猿，而是亚洲猩猩。其结果是对我们自认为对人类起源和科学追求的了解提出了令人信服的挑战。 在这本经过彻底修订的《红猿》中，施瓦茨分析了自第一版出版以来所发现的无数化石。他揭示了一个令人尴尬的事实，即猩猩和人类的牙齿非常相似，以至于在化石记录中它们经常被错误地识别，甚至连专家也是如此。新材料挑衅性地探讨了分子（DNA）在评估进化关系方面是否比化石和解剖学更可靠。许多新的图版和图画都对文本进行了说明。 }
Anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz advances his controversial but remarkably insightful theory that our closest living relatives are orangutans, not chimpanzees or other African apes. }We've all heard that chimpanzees are our closest relatives - that, in fact, they share 98 per cent of their genes with us. But what evidence supports these often-repeated commonplaces? Very little, concludes physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz. In his keenly insightful demolition of conventional wisdom on the family relationships between apes and humans, Schwartz provides a fresh examination of fossil evidence, modern anatomy and physiology, and DNA. He argues that it is not chimpanzees or other African apes that are humankind's closest cousins, but Asian orangutans. The result is a compelling challenge to what we think we know about the origins of humans, and about the pursuit of science.In this thoroughly revised edition of The Red Ape , Schwartz analyzes the myriad fossil discoveries made since the publication of the first edition. He reveals the embarrassing fact that orangutan and human teeth are so similar that they have commonly been misidentified for each other in the fossil record, even by experts. New material provocatively addresses whether molecules (DNA) are more reliable than fossils and anatomy in assessing evolutionary relationships. Numerous new plates and drawings illustrate the text. }