InventingHomo gardarensis
Prestige, Pressure, and Human Evolution in Interwar Scandinavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter C Kjærgaard (0000-0001-9131-5435, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-383 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889714000106 |
| PMID | 24941795 |
| OpenAlex | W2018232093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 59 |
ArgumentIn the 1920s there were still very few fossil human remains to support an evolutionary explanation of human origins. Nonetheless, evolution as an explanatory framework was widely accepted. This led to a search for ancestors in several continents with fierce international competition. With so little fossil evidence available and the idea of a Missing Link as a crucial piece of evidence in human evolution still intact, many actors participated in the scientific race to identify the human ancestor. The curious case ofHomo gardarensisserves as an example of how personal ambitions and national pride were deeply interconnected as scientific concerns were sometimes slighted in interwar palaeoanthropology
Archaeology · Biology · Competition (biology · Environmental ethics · Human evolution · Paleoanthropology · Political science · Prestige · Pride · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Ecology
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Evidence as to man's place in nature
European Identity
A History of Archaeological Thought
The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland
Selling eugenics
‘Hurrah for the missing link!’
The People's Peking Man
Paleoanthropology
In the shadow of the modern synthesis? Alternative perspectives on the last fifty years of paleoanthropology
The Modern Myth of the Viking
The Battlegrounds of European Identity1
Something rotten' and the social construction of social constructivism
Physical anthropology and Human Evolution in Denmark and other Scandinavian Countries
The Humans Who Went Extinct
The Greenland Norse
Blood and Homeland
Cultural politics and the racial cartographics of human origins
Transnational Identities
Anthropological race psychology 1820–1945
Constructing Europe? The evolution of French, British and German nation state identities
Protestant Responses to Darwinism in Denmark, 1859–1914
Hominid behaviour and the earliest occupation of Europe
Beyond the Cephalic Index
Cultural Identity and Archaeology
Science and Society
Viking Settlers in Greenland, and Their Descendants during Five Hundred Years
The Human Skeletons from Herjólfsnes
Pigs in the Faroe Islands
The History of Human Origins Research and its Place in the History of Science
From artefacts to timetables to maps (to mankind)
The Fossil Trade
Design and Dissent
Alternative Archaeologies
History of Physical Anthropology
"Race" and the Construction of Human Identity
Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; or, A Contextualization of German Race Science
Biohistorical Narratives of Racial Difference in the American Negro
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Intra-European Racism in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |