Quantifying characters: Polygenist anthropologists and the hardening of heredity

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-158

  Hume, Brad D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Biology; Character; Eugenics; Heredity; Monogenism; Polygenism; Trait

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; RACE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; HEREDITY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 41149127648     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10739-007-9143-7     Document Type: Review

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