History Within
The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
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Introduction
Part I. History in Bones: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) at the American Museum of Natural History
Chapter 1. From Visual Memory to “Racial Soul”
Chapter 2. Paper Ancestors? or “A Word-Painting of the Scene and of the Man or Woman”
Chapter 3. The Hall of the Age of Man: The Politics of Building a Site of Phylogenetic Remembrance
Chapter 4. Creative Evolution, or Man’s Struggle up Mount Parnassus
Chapter 5. History Within between Science and Fiction
Part II. History in Organisms: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975) at the London Zoo and Other Institutions
Chapter 6. If I Were Dictator: The Modern Synthesis, Evolutionary Humanism, and a Superhuman Memory
Chapter 7. Evolution in Action: The Zoo as a Site of Phylogenetic Remembrance
Chapter 8. Scientific Humanism in the Extended Zoo: History Within as the Basis of Democratic Reform
Chapter 9. Evolutionary Humanism: Planned Ecology and World Heritage Management through the Colonial Office, UNESCO, IUCN, and WWF
Chapter 10. The Ascent of Man Defended
Part III. History in Molecules: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–) and the Genographic Network
Chapter 11. Human History as Brownian Motion, or How Genetic Trees and Gene Maps Draw Things Together
Chapter 12. Cultural Transmission and Progress
Chapter 13. The Geography of “Our Heritage”: From the Human Genome Diversity Project to the Genographic Project
Chapter 14. The Genographic Network: Science, Markets, and Genetic Narratives
Chapter 15. The Genographics of Unity in Diversity
Postscript
Notes
References
Index
Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Biology | Paleobiology, Geology, and Paleontology
History: History of Ideas | History of Technology
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