Race and the odd history of human paleontology

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 289, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 225-240

  Schwartz, Jeffrey H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Dobzhansky; Engis; Huxley; King; Mayr; Neanderthal; Paleoanthropology; Systematics; Taxic diversity

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; BONE; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; SKULL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 33751178150     PISSN: 15524906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.20119     Document Type: Review

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