A sort of revolution
Systematics and physical anthropology in the 20th century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8320973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Cartmill (0000-0002-8003-6104, Boston University Boston Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 165 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 677-687 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.23321 |
| PMID | 29574829 |
| OpenAlex | W2796365849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 40 |
During the first four decades of the 20th century, a system of ideas about the evolution and systematics of humans and other primates coalesced around the work of George Gaylord Simpson and W. E. Le Gros Clark. Buttressed by the “new physical anthropology” of the 1950s, that system provided an authoritative model—a disciplinary matrix or paradigm—for the practice of that aspect of biological anthropology. The Simpson‐Le Gros Clark synthesis began to unravel in the 1960s and collapsed in the 1970s under the onslaught of cladistic systematics. The cladistic “revolution” resembles a paradigm shift of the sort proposed by Thomas Kuhn because it was driven, not by new biological discoveries or theories, but by a change in aesthetics
Biological anthropology · Biology · Cladistics · Discipline · Epistemology · Phylogenetics · Social science · Sociology · Systematics · Taxonomy (biology) · Zoology · Anthropology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Anthropology today
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
The Analysis of Primate Evolution With Particular Reference to the Origin of Man
Rethinking Primate Origins
The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution
Taxonomic Categories in Fossil Hominids
New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates
Section of Anthropology
Rethinking Primate Origins Again
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Cranial anatomy of Ignacius graybullianus and the affinities of the Plesiadapiformes
Man-Apes or Ape-Men? the Story of Discoveries in Africa
Towards a New Definition of Primates
Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution
Primate origins, human origins, and the end of higher taxa
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |