Elaine Morgan (1920–2013)
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- Floyd, Elaine (maiden name)
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- 1920-11-07
- Todestag
- 2013-07-12
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- female
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- UK
- Geburtsort
- Hopkinstown, Wales, UK
- Wohnorte
- Hopkinstown, Wales, UK
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- Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
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- Television dramatist
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- Order of the British Empire (Officer ∙ 2009)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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Found: Prehistory, female perspective in Name that Book (Dezember 2021)
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The book shows no sign of the quirky style of the author's first and most famous ('The Descent of Woman') but instead is written in a very 'straight', bordering on academic style, perhaps chosen because she wanted to be taken seriously. The author develops some information from a previous work, regarding isolation of a particular area of Africa cut off by water ingress for millions of years which would have led to adaptations by species trapped there. This, she argues, led to various humanoid characteristics developing which led eventually to our own species which inherited them.
The author had abandoned her speculations about large brains and an aquatic origin by the time she wrote this, probably because evidence from the 'Lucy' skeleton revealed that bipedalism (walking on two legs) predated the development of a large brain or tool use by millions of years. But her speculations about loss of hair, development of particular types of fat deposit, retention of child features (neoteny) and other factors pertaining to humans and humanoid ancestors are interesting. As she says, attributing these to a move to the savannah doesn't convince when primates such as baboons did not develop them. So I remain open minded about this book until more compelling evidence is presented from the other viewpoint. Hence a middle of the road 3 star rating.… (mehr)