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Evolutionary Studies Jaume Bertranpetit Juli Peretó Editors Illuminating Human Evolution: 150 Years after Darwin Evolutionary Studies SeriesEditor NaruyaSaitou,NationalInstituteofGenetics,Mishima,Japan Everythingishistory,startingfromtheBigBangortheoriginoftheuniversetothe presenttime.Thishistoricalnatureoftheuniverseisclearifwelookatevolutionof organisms.EvolutionisoneofmostbasicfeaturesoflifewhichappearedonEarth morethan3.7billionyearsago.Consideringtheimportanceofevolutioninbiology, we are inaugurating this series. Any aspect of evolutionary studies on any kind of organism is a potential target of the series. Life started at the molecular level, thus molecularevolutionisoneimportantareaintheseries,butnon-molecularstudiesare also within its scope, especially those studies on evolution of multicellular organ- isms.Evolutionaryphenomenacoveredbytheseriesincludetheoriginoflife,fossils ingeneral,Earth–lifeinteraction,evolutionofprokaryotesandeukaryotes,viraland protist evolution, the emergence of multicellular organisms, phenotypic and geno- micdiversityofcertainorganismgroups,andmore.Theoreticalstudiesonevolution arealsocoveredwithinthespectrumofthisnewseries. (cid:129) Jaume Bertranpetit Juli Peretó Editors Illuminating Human Evolution: 150 Years after Darwin Editors JaumeBertranpetit JuliPeretó MELIS-UniversitatPompeuFabra InstitutdeBiologiaIntegrativadeSistemes IBE,InstitutdeBiologiaEvolutiva I2SysBio (UPF-CSIC) UniversitatdeValència-CSIC Barcelona,Spain Paterna,Spain ISSN2509-484X ISSN2509-4858 (electronic) EvolutionaryStudies ISBN978-981-19-3245-8 ISBN978-981-19-3246-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3246-5 Thetranslationwasdonewiththehelpofartificialintelligence(machinetranslationbytheserviceDeepL. com).Asubsequenthumanrevisionwasdoneprimarilyintermsofcontent. 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The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Preface Thebookyouhaveinyourhandscomesfromaverysimplepurpose:topaytribute to Charles Darwin on the 150th anniversary of the publication of the book The descentofman,andselectioninrelationtosex,firstpublishedin1871.Forthatwe began with a local project: the publication of a monography in the series of the CatalanSocietyofBiology(SCB),ascribedtotheInstituteofCatalanStudies(IEC) andhavingtheheadquartersinBarcelona.Evenifexceedingthestandardlengthof the monographies, it was published as Volume 71 of the Treballs de la Societat CatalanadeBiologia,inourlanguage,Catalan,attheendof2021. Forthatwehadadoublepurpose:thestudyofthesocialcontextofDarwinand his time and the state of the art of the studies on human evolution and sexual selection, considering all aspects that Darwin examined and those that emerged laterandnowareimportantdisciplinesinourunderstandingofourownevolution. Wecouldhavedoneastricterfollow-upofDarwin’swork,followinginparallel chapters the state of the present knowledge, but we decided to do otherwise to introducemoreeasilythoseviewsthathedidnotconsider,likeartorgenetics.Thus, thegeneralstructureisnotthesame,evenifallDarwin’sviewsarediscussedinthe differentchaptersofthisbook. ThesetofauthorsaredifferentfromthepredominantAnglo-Saxonmonographies andeditedbooks.Inthiscaseallareinternationallyrecognizedresearchers butnot mainly based in the USA. Thus, many authors are working in different places in Spain,withstrongrepresentationofBarcelonaandValencia.Thisisanaddedvalue tohaveaviewfromthe“periphery”offirst-classscience. Atthesametime,weofferedtheUniversityPressoftheUniversityofValencia (PublicacionsdelaUniversitatdeValència[PUV])thepossibilityofpublishingitin Spanish.Theyenthusiasticallydidafantasticjobpublishingitinabookformatthat hasbeenwidelyappreciated. Ashorttimelater,ProfessorNaruyaSaitou,recognizingthewideinterestofthe book,suggestedustoofferitspublicationinEnglishtoSpringertranslatedfromthe Spanish texts kindly provided by PUV. In a strict and smooth process, Springer offered us the publication in English in its series of Evolutionary Studies. We are v vi Preface very grateful for the acceptance of the proposal and the professionality of the editorialteam. Darwin was a genius and paved exquisitely the path of evolutionary anthropol- ogy.Let’shopethisbookisaworthyheirofhiswealth. Barcelona,Spain JaumeBertranpetit Valencia,Spain JuliPeretó Contents 1 LightWouldBeThrown:HumanEvolution150YearsAfter Darwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 JuliPeretóandJaumeBertranpetit 2 TheHistoricalBackgroundtoDarwin’sDescentofMan. . . . . . . . . 17 JanetBrowne 3 WaysofSeeingtheWorld:DarwinandtheFirstVictorian Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 JosepM.Fradera 4 TheProblemofDesignintheDarwinianProposal:AHistorical Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 JesúsI.Català-Gorgues 5 DarwinUnderSuspicion:TheRepresentationofDarwinism intheNewspaperABC(1909–1982). .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. 53 MarcosMoralesandMartíDomínguez 6 TheDescentofMan:DarwinandPsychology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 EsterDesfilis 7 HumanEvolution:TheLinguisticEvidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 JoanaRosselló,LilianaTolchinsky,andCarmeJunyent 8 HumanEvolutioninEurasia:TheFossilsthatDarwin DidNotKnow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 MaríaMartinón-Torres 9 HumanEvolution:TheGenomicEvidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 DavidComasandFrancescCalafell 10 TheAdaptationsThatMadeUsHuman:Morphology. . . . . . . . . . 121 DavidM.AlbaandSergioAlmécija vii viii Contents 11 TheAdaptationsThatHaveMadeUsHuman:TheGenome. . . . . . 137 ElenaBosch 12 HowDoWeHumansEvolve?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 EudaldCarbonellandPolicarpHortolà 13 ArtasaHumanElement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 InésDomingo 14 SexualSelection:FollowingDarwin’sLegacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 RobertoGarcía-RoaandPauCarazo 15 GeneticandCulturalEvolutionofMateChoice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 MauroSantosandSusanaA.M.Varela 16 HowPastShapesFuture:TheBiologicalFutureofHumankind. . . 201 JaumeBertranpetitandJuliPeretó Chapter 1 Light Would Be Thrown: Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin JuliPeretóandJaumeBertranpetit Abstract In1871Charles DarwinpublishedThedescent ofman, andselection in relationtosex,hisfirstmajorcontributiontothenaturalexplanationoftheoriginof mankind, a subject deliberately omitted from his better known work The origin of species. Convinced that the time was ripe to address this thorny issue in public, Darwin produces a book that is, in form and substance, profoundly Victorian. It reflectshisprejudicesofclass,genderand(imperial)nation,whileatthesametime layingthefoundationsforourcontemporaryviewofhumanevolutionwithoutany supernatural intervention. This commemorative collection offers us a broad and diverseoverviewofcurrentknowledgeabouttheoriginsofhumanity. Keywords Victorianera·Sexualselection·Humanraces·Scientificimage· Humanphylogeny On February 24, 1871, the first edition of The descent of man, and selection in relationtosex(Descent,fromnowon)wentonsaleand,beforetheendoftheyear, countingreprints,8000copieswereincirculation.ItwasCharlesDarwin’sfirstbook to make a financial profit, even though he was already an established and popular author(Fig.1.1).Despitetheunfavourablereportsabouttheopportunitytopublish the text, the sense of his publisher John Murray was not wrong: a strictly natural explanationoftheoriginofhumanscouldattracttheattentionnotonlyofspecialists butalsoofthegeneralpublic.Inthesameyearofpublication,translationsappeared inDutch, French, German, RussianandItalian,andshortly afterwards inSwedish, PolishandDanish. J.Peretó(*) DepartamentdeBioquímicaiBiologiaMolecular,InstitutdeBiologiaIntegrativadeSistemes I2SysBio(UniversitatdeValència-CSIC),UniversitatdeValència,Valencia,Spain e-mail:[email protected] J.Bertranpetit DepartmentofMedicineandLifeSciences(MELIS),InstitutdeBiologiaEvolutivaIBE (UniversitatPompeuFabra-CSIC),UniversitatPompeuFabra,Barcelona,Spain e-mail:[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSingaporePteLtd.2022 1 J.Bertranpetit,J.Peretó(eds.),IlluminatingHumanEvolution:150Yearsafter Darwin,EvolutionaryStudies,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3246-5_1
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