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Human Tools of the European Tertiary? Artefacts, Brains and Minds in Evolutionist Reasoning, 1870--1920 (2011)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 65
Pages: 65--82

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Prehistoric Minds: Human Origins as a Cultural Artefact, 1780--2010”
Language: English

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Brain Archaeology Prehistory and primitive societies Evolutionary psychology Human evolution 20th century, early 19th century Great Britain Osborn, Henry Fairfield Mortillet, Gabriel de Reid Moir, James

This essay explores evolutionary reasoning and notions of progress at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing on the various interpretations used to understand eoliths. These `dawn' (Greek eos) `stones' (Greek lithos) were contested objects and I focus on three geographic episodes in which they were used to support scientific, and sometimes socially inspired, accounts of human origins. Particular attention is paid to the work of Gabriel de Mortillet (1821--98), James Reid Moir (1879--1944) and Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857--1935).

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