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Zoologist Clive Bromhall's theory of human origins is this: human beings are enormously overgrown infant chimpanzees, and every aspect of human behaviour and physiognomy - every biological and sociological sticking-point identified in the last 150 years - can be explained if we examine ourselves in this way. The book started life as an investigation of the evolution of homosexuality and rapidly transmogrified into a 'search to find the origin of the human species'; it has become a long overdue zoological examination of the human species as just another monkey, and the result is a fresh perspective on the problems that have beleaguered evolutionary biologists since Darwin first set the goalposts in 1859. Bromhall's view is not only fresh but practical and theoretically astonishing: with what seems a simple trick of perspective, he has succeeded in laying to rest the troublesome ghosts of the 'useless' portion of the human brain, the evolution of human sexuality, aberrant behaviour and redundant anatomical oddities. Like the Origin of Species, Bromhall's book is based, essentially, on a very simple adjustment in the way we see things - and like the Origin it is capable of explaining an enormous quantity of biological puzzles that were previously considered to be unrelated. Travelling simply and effectively from theory to evidence - the bones of the idea are presented within the first 30 pages - this book genuinely seems to carry the answers to all the uncomfortably inexplicable instances of human physiology and behaviour identified by modern proponents of Darwinism: further, Bromhall presents these answers with an inventiveness and accessibility that brooks no misunderstanding. His book is stimulating, exciting and demands reading; with this theory of the big babies, neo-Darwinism has grown up. (Kirkus UK)
Herbert Prins, author of Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo: Social Inequality and Decision Making (Chapman & Hall, London)
'This book provides a candid and unadulterated insight into our body and mind.'
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Zoologist Clive Bromhall's theory of human origins is this: human beings are enormously overgrown infant chimpanzees, and every aspect of human behaviour and physiognomy - every biological and sociological sticking-point identified in the last 150 years - can be explained if we examine ourselves in this way. The book started life as an investigation of the evolution of homosexuality and rapidly transmogrified into a 'search to find the origin of the human species'; it has become a long overdue zoological examination of the human species as just another monkey, and the result is a fresh perspective on the problems that have beleaguered evolutionary biologists since Darwin first set the goalposts in 1859. Bromhall's view is not only fresh but practical and theoretically astonishing: with what seems a simple trick of perspective, he has succeeded in laying to rest the troublesome ghosts of the 'useless' portion of the human brain, the evolution of human sexuality, aberrant behaviour and redundant anatomical oddities. Like the Origin of Species, Bromhall's book is based, essentially, on a very simple adjustment in the way we see things - and like the Origin it is capable of explaining an enormous quantity of biological puzzles that were previously considered to be unrelated. Travelling simply and effectively from theory to evidence - the bones of the idea are presented within the first 30 pages - this book genuinely seems to carry the answers to all the uncomfortably inexplicable instances of human physiology and behaviour identified by modern proponents of Darwinism: further, Bromhall presents these answers with an inventiveness and accessibility that brooks no misunderstanding. His book is stimulating, exciting and demands reading; with this theory of the big babies, neo-Darwinism has grown up. (Kirkus UK)
Herbert Prins, author of Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo: Social Inequality and Decision Making (Chapman & Hall, London)
'This book provides a candid and unadulterated insight into our body and mind.'
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