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Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

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 | #941346 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  2011-01-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.76 x6.00l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| The Ironic, Intellectual History of the Pre-Adamite Idea|By George P. Wood|Is Adam the father of all human beings, or do they have multiple fathers?

For centuries, Christendom had a simple, biblical answer. Adam was the father of the human race. But during the Age of Discovery, Westerners' contact with other cultures increasingly called into question the chronology,| ||"As David Livingstone shows in this fascinating book, which carefully traces the history of speculations about Adam's ancestors, debates about human origins have always had, and continue to have, moral and political dimensions." (Sciences Humaines)

Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet.

In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of non-adamic humanity, and the debates surrounding it, from the Middle Ages to the present day. From a multidisciplin...

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