Human evolution has a perennial fascination for most biologists and many laymen, and never more than now, when the centennial of the first edition of The Origin of Species is being celebrated. Paleontologists and anthropologists today have appreciable numbers of fossil human remains to work from, in contrast to the scarcity of these relics in Darwin's time. Not only are the earliest of these fossils of very great interest, but so are those of the later generations of man's history, when he abandoned a life of hunting and gleaning, and became a far more numerous and more civilized animal.
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Edward E. Hunt (1959) studied this question.