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Book Title
Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins
ISBN
1431424250
EAN
9781431424252
Release Title
Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins
Artist
Kuljian, Christa
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Jacana Media
ISBN-10
1431424250
ISBN-13
9781431424252
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237308421

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
Darwin's Hunch : Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Life Sciences / Evolution, Africa / General, General, Science & Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Christa Kuljian
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-398007
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
599.938
Synopsis
The announcement of the Homo naledi hominid fossils by Professor Lee Berger in September 2015 at Maropeng outside Johannesburg dominated the news and headlines for months internationally. The public reaction to the find indicated a fascination in the search for human origins, and that the concept of race and human evolution are linked in many people's minds. Christa Kuljian traces the history of South African palaeoanthropology and genetics research in order to make sense of science and race in the quest to understand human origins. Over time, the nature of the search has shifted and changed. What are we looking for after all? Darwin's hunch in 1871 was that humans evolved in Africa, but very few European scientists agreed. Raymond Dart wrote in Nature in February 1925 that the Taung Child Skull supported Darwin's theory. Dart believed he had found the "missing link" between apes and humans. Again, few scientists agreed. Over the past century, the search for human origins has been shaped by the changing social and political context. Reflecting colonial thinking, Raymond Dart followed the practice in the US and Europe of collecting human remains and characterising human skeletons into racial types. He thought that there was a Bushman racial type that might provide a clue to human evolution. In 1936, he led a Wits University expedition to the Kalahari to study this imaginary racial type. One of the people he met and measured was a young woman named /Keri-/Keri. She died two years later. Her body was embalmed and taken to Wits University where her skeleton became part of the Raymond Dart Skeleton Collection. The book uncovers the sad story of what happened to her remains. In addition to /Keri-/Keri, Kuljian introduces us to a range of people who were in the shadows of the well-known scientists. The book shows how Prime Minister Jan Smuts supported the search for human origins in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, how the concept of human evolution was opposed by the apartheid government, and how the post-1994 South African government and President Thabo Mbeki, with encouragement from Phillip Tobias, celebrated the fact that Africa is the Cradle of Humankind. Yet the search continues. In 1987, the publication of 'Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution' suggested that all living humans could trace their ancestry back to Africa 200,000 years ago. Many scientists and the general public in the West were slow to accept such a claim. Genetic research continues today, based not on fossils or skeletons, but on DNA samples. Kuljian examines current thinking and approaches to the ongoing search and explains why for much of the past century so many scientists were reluctant to accept Darwin's Hunch., 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.
LC Classification Number
GN281.K75 2016

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