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The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935) The Embryo Project Encyclopedia 2021-06-03 Aliya R. Hoff, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Arizona State University Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or the Galton…
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When Racism Was a Science The New York Times 2014-10-13 Joshua A. Krisch ‘Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles…
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Not only physical but also mental and temperamental incompatibilities may be a consequence of hybridization. For example, one often sees in mulattoes an ambition and push combined with intellectual inadequacy which makes the unhappy hybrid dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others. To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony—disharmony of physical, mental and…
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Notes on physical anthropology of Australian aborigines and black-white hybrids American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 8, Issue 1 (January/March 1925) pages 73–94 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330080105 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Introduction In September 1914, after the meetings of the British Association…
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A Race about Race: Race, Inter-Race and Post-Race in the Study of Human Genetics Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Volume 30, Number 2 (September/October 2002) Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo In 1929, Charles B. Davenport, Director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold…
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Skin Color of Mulattoes Journal of Heridity Volume 5, Number 12 (December 1914) pages 556-558 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Apparently Four Factors Involved—Segregation in Second Generation—Skin Pigment Developed After Birth—No Correlation Between Color of Skin and Curliness of Hair in…
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Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses Carnegie Institution of Washington 1913 106 pages Number 188, Paper Number 20 of the Station for experimental evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York Charles B. Davenport (1866-1944), Director Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York Table of Contents A.…