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History within : the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules / Marianne Sommer.
LIBRA QH15 .S66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sommer, Marianne, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield.
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
- Huxley, Julian.
- Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-2018.
- Cavalli-Sforza, L. L.
- Natural history--History.
- Natural history.
- History.
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Evolutionary genetics--History.
- Evolutionary genetics.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part 1. History in bones: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) at the American Museum of Natural History
- From visual memory to "racial soul"
- Paper ancestors? or "a word-painting of the scene and of the man or woman"
- The Hall of the Age of Man: the politics of building a site of phylogenetic remembrance
- Creative evolution, or man's struggle up Mount Parnassus
- History within between science and fiction
- Part 2. History in organisms: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) at the London Zoo and other institutions
- If I were dictator: the modern synthesis, evolutionary humanism, and a superhuman memory
- Evolution in action: the zoo as a site of phylogenetic remembrance
- Scientific humanism in the extended zoo: history within as the basis of democratic reform
- Evolutionary humanism: planned ecology and world heritage management through the Colonial Office, Unesco, IUCN, and WWF
- The ascent of man defended
- Part 3. History in molecules: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922- ) and the genographic network
- Human history as Brownian motion, or how genetic trees and gene maps draw things together
- Cultural transmission and progress
- The geography of "our heritage": from the human genome diversity project to the genographic project
- The genographic network: science, markets, and genetic narratives
- The genographics of unity in diversity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226347325
- 022634732X
- OCLC:
- 919341760
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