19. The (Diagrammatic) Narratives of Genetic Revolutions

Open Book Publishers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 261 - 272

Published: July 30, 2024

Chapter 19 looks at the ways in which practitioners themselves conceive of history their field. The second revolution ancient DNA research is said to have revealed that present-day genetic samples did not allow for reconstruction events because, contrary Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza’s and other pioneers’ expectations, people had migrated mixed, thus blurring patterns past. Although such a view seems deconstruct tree diagram associated notion living humans can be biologically grouped into primeval ‘races’ once all, some population geneticists public figures maintain meaningful average differences between populations exist.

Language: Английский

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3. Kinship Denied and Acknowledged

Open Book Publishers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 45 - 52

Published: July 30, 2024

While there was a way of using diagrams to evidence close human kinship, were thus also used deny genealogical relatedness, create differences within humankind that amounted the status unrelated species. Samuel George Morton drew especially on French polygenist writings, in which rather elaborate system measurements already place. This diagrammatics ‘race’ enmeshed matters ‘racial’ politics. At same time, referred works monogenists, and members both camps could stand for complex contradicting politics knowledge.

Language: Английский

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Part III. Radicalizing versus Deconstructing the Family Tree of the Human ‘Races’

Open Book Publishers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 145 - 150

Published: July 30, 2024

As shown in Part II, there fact existed theories of human classification and evolution the history anthropology that corresponded to notions transported by family tree, such as independent populations. Sometimes explicitly drawing on Ernst Haeckel’s phylogenies, some anthropologists published polygenist diagrams convey their understanding intra-human specific or even generic differences well into twentieth century. In these visualization practices, tree shape was increasingly radicalized through prolongation lines leading modern groups were thereby constructed hierarchical order. At same time, while have been critical voices opposed this kind thinking with at least since Charles Darwin, it is especially from interwar period ‘racial trees’ came under critique relying a faulty genetics evolution, racist – became louder aftermath World War II. The debates once again related larger politics, also up until anthropological can be connected pedigrees developed used eugenics research, most all studies mixing’.

Language: Английский

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9. Map, Scale, and Tree in Darwin, Haeckel and Co.

Open Book Publishers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 123 - 140

Published: July 30, 2024

That Charles Darwin partook in conceptualizing general human advancement terms of a series sequential steps is evident Descent. But there were also other, tree-like, diagrammatic metaphors and images use by naturalists, linguists, embryologists, anthropologists. Chapter 9 therefore explores why never even experimented on drawing phylogenetic tree that included intra-human differentiation. It seems the time Descent appeared, predominantly monogenist diagram had already been driven beyond its initial purpose. In particular Ernst Haeckel’s phylogenies showed ‘the family tree’ could support racism polygenism.

Language: Английский

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1. Esthetics, Diagrammatics, and Metrics

Open Book Publishers, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 17 - 28

Published: July 30, 2024

Researches into the Physical History of Man (1813) ‘the founder modern anthropology’, James Cowles Prichard, codified comparative-historical approach that was based on study languages and other aspects culture. However, it also already responded to fledgling physical anthropology, or craniology, as practiced by such figures Petrus Camper Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Blumenbach among things explored diagrams for their possibilities experimentation. Both men used suggest feasibility morphing human varieties each other. Like Prichard’s ethnography, Camper’s Blumenbach’s diagrammatics aimed demonstrate single origin unity humankind.

Language: Английский

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