History within : the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules
- Author/Creator:
- Sommer, Marianne, 1971- author
- Publication/Creation:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- History within : the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules / Marianne Sommer
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- Table of Contents:
- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- viii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936575702402486
- ISBN:
- 9780226347325 (cloth : alk. paper)
022634732X (cloth : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 919341760
- Barcode:
- 010002986029
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