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The Simian Basis of Human Mechanics or Ape to Engineer

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ID3781447
AuthorsEarnest A Hooton (0009-0001-4026-4815, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, corresponding author)
Year1938
Volume12
Issue46
Pages196-209
Publication date1938-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00013673
OpenAlexW2491856374
LanguageEN

My subject should not be construed by the refined as a malicious innuendo, nor by the vulgar(unrepresented here, of course) as a ' dirty dig '. The transition from ape to engineer is from the ridiculous to the sublime-or, at any rate, from a little short of one to a little short of the other. This handsome statement must serve as my panegyric on mechanical science. As an anthropologist, I am perturbed by the fact that human invention has outstripped man's organic development, and his control of nature his control of himself. So I propose to discuss the organic basis of mechanical achievement and the cause of man's physical and social lag in relation to his material progress

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Relation (database) · Ridiculous · Statement (logic) · Subject (documents) · Sublime · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Science Education and Perceptions · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

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