Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.

Date:
Únor 1952
Reference:
663756i
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Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Educational material consisting of reproductions of photographs and drawings comparing human and animal evolution from a Marxist point of view. Deals with expression, use of tools, structure of the hand, posture, the eye, the skull and the brain. The central panel contains a citation from Friedrich Engels 'The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man', and the lower panel from I.P. Pavlov's concept of 'two signal systems'. Lower left, a coal miner using a drill; lower right a lecturer addressing an audience

Publication/Creation

[Praha] [Prague] : Vydalo Ministerstvo informací a osvěty ve vydavatelství Osvěta, národní podnik, Únor 1952 ([Praha] : Orbis)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in black and buff on white ; sheet 83 x 59.3 cm

Lettering

Jak se člověk naučil myslet a mluvit. Projevy citů u mláděte šimpanze a u dítěte. Údiv. Smích. Pláč. Skupina pithecanthropů. Kamenné nástroje pralidí Ruka člověkaa gorily. ... Znázornění chůze na kostře gorily a člověka Oko lidské a oko jestřába Schema vývoje lebky člověka Schema center řeči - Mozek opičí a lidský Translation of lettering: Evolution of human ability to think and speak. Expressions of feelings of human child and chimpanzee: astonishment; laughter; crying. Group of Pithecanthropi Prehistoric stone tools Hand of man and gorilla. ... Depiction of manner of walking shown in an example of human and gorilla skeleton. Man's and hawk eye Scheme of human skull development. Scheme of speech. Centre: ape and human brains

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Wellcome Collection 663756i

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