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Until Darwin, science, human variety and the origins of race / by B. Ricardo Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, B. Ricardo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution--Research--History.
- Human evolution.
- Monogenism and polygenism.
- Race relations--History.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Human evolution--Research.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 199 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
- Summary:
- A scholar of culture, Brown explores the ways and systems of classification that Westerners have used to create a metaphysical construction of human bodies. He does not attempt to explain racial differences, or to debunk the concept of race, he says, because it has been thoroughly debunked many times to no avail. He discusses ecce homo or slavery and the human variety, classification and the species question, polygenesis and the types of mankind, Darwin in context: science against slavery, and the authority of the sciences of life. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781848931008
- 184893100X
- OCLC:
- 648100925
- Publisher Number:
- 99940859559
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