Mirror, mirror on the wall: Neanderthal as image and 'distortion' in early 20th-century French science and press

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-240

  Sommer, Marianne ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

History of anthropology; Human evolution; Science and religion; Science and the press; Scientific and popular visualization reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644920677     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706054527     Document Type: Article

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