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Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins /

Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists - humans inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet. This book traces the history of and debates surr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Livingstone, David N., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record
  • Heresy : Isaac La Peyrere and the pre-Adamite scandal
  • Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative
  • Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion
  • Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology
  • Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam
  • Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy
  • Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse
  • Dimensions : concluding reflections.