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Milford Wolpoff and Rachel CaspariPublication Details
BookWestview Press1998Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN281 .W6418 1998 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Theories of race and questions of whether humans can be categorized in different species have caused polarization and discord in the sciences throughout history, and theories currently in vogue may have as much to do with contemporary cultural politics as with science.Race and Human Evolution is a far-ranging account by leading researchers in the field that describes the latest scientific evidence and the conflicting theories about human evolution. Race and human evolution have become tangled during some of the most important eras in our history: European colonizations, which sparked questions over the humanity of indigenous natives, and the slavery issue and whether Jefferson?s claims of humanity and quality for all people applied to slaves. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "First published in hardcover in 1997 by Simon & Schuster" –T.p. verso
Contents
- Multiregional evolution and Eve: science and politics
- A first lesson in the politics of paleoanthropology
- Polygenism, racism, and the rise of anthropology
- Slavery and its reverberations
- Polygenism after Darwin
- The last stand
- The straw man
- Functional morphology, orthogensis, and the Dubois Syndrome
- Center and edge
- Multiregional evolution
- Modern humans, modern races?
ISBN
- 0813335469
- 9780813335469
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