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Darwin and Human Evolution: Origin of Species Revisited

 
Ranjana Ray (Editor) Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay (Editor) Samir Banerjee (Editor) Seminar and public lecture series
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The book is a homeage to Charles Darwin. It reassessed Darwin and his theory of evolution. Systematic synthesis of Darwinian concepts in the contemporary pwespective of research and innovations are the focal points of this book. The Asiatic Society had provided research materials to Darwin for his famous work on evolution. This volume includes works of the scientists who are continuing with Darwin's specimens in the Bird division of Natural History Museum of United Kingdom. There are articles on valuable and enigmatic fossil findings from China, Indonesia and India. Detail description of the fossil remains is given together with their evolutionary implications and settement histories in Asia. Evolution is viewed from the bio-cultural view point. Recent concepts and researches on evolution from the perspective of molecular biology are discussed. Bio-engineering and genomic programming points out modern techniques for understanding evolution. Above all there are discourses on population structure, biological framework for understanding people of Indian subcontinent. Genomic and cultural studies have established the aniquity of Indian population. Highly acclaimed findings substantiated by DNA analysis of Indian people both of modern and ancient are discussed. Much of the myths in respect to peopling of India is unravelled in this book.

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About the authors

Ranjana Ray

Ranjana Ray is a former professor of the Department of Anthropology, Calcutta university. She has been conferred with Emeritus Fellowship by UGC considering her highly acclaimed contribution in authropology. She is an elected member of the executive body of the International Union for Prehistoric and protohistoric Sciences, a body of the UNESCO. She is the Anthropological Secretary of the Asiatic Society. There are a number of publications to her credit published in reputed scientific journals in India and abroad.

Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay

Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay is the Director, centre for Research in Nano Science and Nano Technolgoy; Professor in Biochemistry and Biotechnology; Provice Chancellor Academic, Calcutta University; President, Society of Biological Chemists (India); President, West Bengal Academy of science and Technology; Fellow of Indian Academy of Science secretary, he Asiatic Society, Kolkata. His works and research findings are published both in international and national publications.

Samir Banerjee

Samir Banerjee is the former Hiralal Chaudhuri Professor, Department of Zoology, Calcutta University; Fellow of the west Bengal Academy of Science and Technology; Former expert Member, West Bengal Biodiversity Board; Hony. Secretary, The Zoological Society, Kolkata. He is working on Functional Ecology of Wetland, Mangrove and Weste fed ecosystem. He has published 130 scientific papers and authored a number of text and reference books. He is a member of the Biological Science Subcommittee of the Asiatic Society.

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Title Darwin and Human Evolution: Origin of Species Revisited
Format Hardcover
Date published: 31.10.2014
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789381574164
length xi+180p., Illustrations; Colour; Maps; Colour; 25cm.