Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race (Hardcover)

Until the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the prevailing theory on 'the species question' was that humans were made up of five separate species, created at different times and in different places. This view - known as the 'polygenic theory' - was particularly favoured by naturalists of the early nineteenth-century 'American School' as it provided a scientific justification for slavery. Darwin's Origin demolished this view. This work fills a gap in recent studies on the history of race and science. Focusing on both the classification systems of human variety and the development of science as the arbiter of truth, Brown looks at the rise of the emerging sciences of life and society - biology and sociology - as well as the debate surrounding slavery and abolition.

General

Imprint:	Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	B. Ricardo Brown
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-84893-100-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84893-100-X
Barcode:	9781848931008

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