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The “Misfits”: Genesis of a Non-Darwinian Myth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Florent Kohler
Florent Kohler*
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University of Tours, France
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Florent Kohler, University of Tours, 60 rue du Plat D’Etain 37020 Tours cedex 1, France. Email: [email protected]
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This paper studies the concept of “hominisation” in terms of the dialectic between rupture and continuity. To this effect, it takes into account a number of scholarly approaches belonging to dif-ferent disciplines (neurobiology, ethnology, linguistics). Through these discourse, the author shows how the concept of hominisation escapes the Darwinian narrative, and belongs rather to a mythological dimension. As such, it plays a role in the process of building a specifically human identity, as opposed to an animal one.

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Diogenes , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 75 - 87
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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