Book1863
The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
Charles Lyell
Book · Scholarly · Public domain
About this work
Lyell gathers the cave and gravel finds of human artefacts with extinct animals and argues for a human history far older than the biblical chronology.
- Author
- Charles Lyell
- Published
- 1863
- Written for
- Scholarly
- Licence
- Public domain. The full text is loaded from the source below and evaluated section by section.
- Read it
- gutenberg.org ↗
- Pillars
- Human Origins, Deep Time
Contents
This book hasn't been evaluated yet. Evaluating all 25 sections, then judging the work as a whole, costs about $5 in AI processing (our estimate). Reader support is what pays for it.
- s01Introductionabout 2,595 words
- s02Chap. 22. Objections To The Hypothesis Of Transmutation Considered … Chapter 1. — Introductoryabout 2,789 words
- s03Chapter 2. — Recent Period — Danish Peat And Shell Mounds — Swissabout 7,867 words
- s04Chapter 3. — Fossil Human Remains And Works Of Art Of The Recentabout 8,207 words
- s05Chapter 4. — Pleistocene Period — Bones Of Man And Extinct Mammalia Inabout 5,012 words
- s06Chapter 5. — Pleistocene Period — Fossil Human Skulls Of The Neanderthalabout 5,568 words
- s07Chapter 6. — Pleistocene Alluvium And Cave Deposits With Flintabout 4,047 words
- s08Chapter 7. — Peat And Pleistocene Alluvium Of The Valley Of The Sommeabout 3,991 words
- s09Chapter 8. — Pleistocene Alluvium With Flint Implements Of The Valleyabout 8,768 words
- s10Chapter 9. — Works Of Art In Pleistocene Alluvium Of France Andabout 6,254 words
- s11Chapter 10. — Cavern Deposits, And Places Of Sepulture Of Theabout 7,318 words
- s12Chapter 11. — Age Of Human Fossils Of Le Puy In Central France And Ofabout 3,777 words
- s13Chapter 12. — Antiquity Of Man Relatively To The Glacial Period And Toabout 6,898 words
- s14Chapter 13. — Chronological Relations Of The Glacial Period And Theabout 11,310 words
- s15Chapter 14. — Chronological Relations Of The Glacial Period And Theabout 7,037 words
- s16Chapter 15. — Extinct Glaciers Of The Alps And Their Chronologicalabout 10,379 words
- s17Chapter 16. — Human Remains In The Loess, And Their Probable Ageabout 5,356 words
- s18Chapter 17. — Post-Glacial Dislocations And Foldings Of Cretaceous Andabout 2,957 words
- s19Chapter 18. — The Glacial Period In North Americaabout 5,624 words
- s20Chapter 19. — Recapitulation Of Geological Proofs Of Man's Antiquityabout 3,734 words
- s21Chapter 20. — Theories Of Progression And Transmutationabout 7,143 words
- s22Chapter 21. — On The Origin Of Species By Variation And Naturalabout 5,314 words
- s23Chapter 22. — Objections To The Hypothesis Of Transmutation Consideredabout 9,272 words
- s24Chapter 23. — Origin And Development Of Languages And Species Comparedabout 5,477 words
- s25Chapter 24. — Bearing Of The Doctrine Of Transmutation On The Origin Ofabout 16,220 words
Evaluate a passage
Want one paragraph examined closely, before or after the whole work is graded? Paste it here. New evaluations need an account with a monthly allowance; accounts are coming soon.