The Evolution of Racism (COBE) - Softcover

Shipman, P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674008626 ISBN 13: 9780674008625

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In an intellectually engaging narrative that mixes science and history, theories and personalities, Pat Shipman asks the question: Can we have legitimate scientific investigations of differences among humans without sounding racist? Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory into eugenics; the conflict between laboratory research in genetics and fieldwork in physical anthropology and biology; and the continuing controversies over the heritability of intelligence, criminal behavior, and other traits, the book explains both prewar eugenics and postwar taboos on letting the insights of genetics and evolution into the study of humanity. "The volume is 'must' reading. Shipman gives readers a compelling discussion and candidly asks: 'Have we the courage and intelligence to face the truth about ourselves' Kirkus Review "Shipman has written a courageous, thought-provoking and elegant book" - Los Angeles Times "This smoothly written book is a welcome addition to intellectual history" - New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Pat Shipman is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing (coauthored with Alan Walker) which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year (1998)

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674008626
• ISBN 13: 9780674008625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320