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Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins (2017)

Kuljian, Christa (Author)

Jacana Media

ISBN: 9781431424252

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 352 pp.
Language: English

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Classification Colonialism Science and race Skeleton Genetics Human evolution Paleoanthropology Apartheid 20th century South Africa

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins – in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics – over the past century. The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the hope that they would provide clues to human evolution. Kuljian sheds light on how, during apartheid, the concept of racial classification mirrored the way in which many scientists thought about race and human evolution.

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Review Matthew R. Goodrum (2019) Review of "Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 357-358). unapi

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