The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES Blumenbach strongly upheld the unity of the human species against an alternative view, then growin ...

408 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES quence of varying modes of life adopted in these different regions. For example, nations that ...

Caucasian Blurnenbach's racial geometry with two lines of "degeneration" extending °ut through intermediary stages from a cent ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES library, offering special praise for the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, a Boston slave whose writings ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES 4 II in the quotation presented at the beginning of this article, of maxi- mal beauty with place o ...

412 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES Africans, the Malay variety provided crucial symmetry for Blumen- bach's hierarchical taxonomy ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES The Moral State of Tahiti—and of Darwin Childhood precocity is an eerie and fascinating phenomenon ...

414 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES Xeroxing. "The Moral State of Tahiti" represents Darwin's first public appearance in print, an ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES guments, both quoted directly from his journals. First, Tahitian Christianity seems deep and genui ...

416 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES article, but the dominant theme can surely be summarized in a single word: paternalism. We kno ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES chiefly as it would appear in their emotional, but partly in their intellectual faculties. Every o ...

418 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES On the subject of sexual differences, so often a surrogate for racial attitudes, Darwin writes ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES 4 I 9 such potent and evil nonsense then passed for certain knowledge. If I choose to impose indiv ...

420 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES mind of one of these beings resemble that of an educated man. What a scale of improvement is c ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES 421 FitzRoy would have chartered a boat at his own expense to re- turn York Minster, Jemmy Button, ...

422 THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES But the strongest argument for admiring Darwin lies not in the relatively beneficent character ...

THREE CENTURIES' PERSPECTIVES 4* 3 In the next line, Darwin moves from description to refutation and a plea for action: I will n ...