History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 20 (3/23/00)

 

Topics      Human origins and human society Archeology and anthropology Digression:  the constitution of anthropology Social evolution The missing link Antiprogressive countercurrents Sociology Social Darwinism Implications and their complications Eugenics

Names and terms    Huxley, Man's place in nature (1863) Darwin, Descent of man (1871) civilizing mission Stone Age (Paleolithic, Neolithic) Bronze Age Iron Age Cro Magnon Neanderthal Java man Herbert Spencer survival of the fittest Karl Pearson Francis Galton positive eugenics negative eugenics

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