Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Prior Recipients.
Since 1908 Sir Arthur Keith has devoted his attention to the question of the manner and means by which the body and brain of the ape were transformed into those of man. Here are the results and implications of this search - which has lasted nearly forty years - and the answer to the most important problem the evolutionist has had to face.
Prominent figures such as Arthur Smith Woodward and Grafton Elliot Smith (Professor of Anatomy who had assembled the skull pieces) received knighthoods. Smith Woodward’s book on Piltdown Man, The Earliest Englishman, was published posthumously in 1948. It carried a foreword by Sir Arthur Keith, who had unveiled the memorial a decade easier.
At the university he began a lifelong friendship with the anatomist (Sir) Arthur Keith whose encouragement influenced him to make his career in anatomy, but, as a young graduate, Wood Jones found medicine 'cramped and small when compared to biology' and jumped at the chance of a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. on the Cocos-Keeling Islands (1905-06).
The Antiquity of Man, Sir Arthur Keith,2nd edition, 2 vols., Williams and Northgate, London 1925. Volume 2 devotes about 250 pages to Piltdown man, with many references to primary research literature. New Discoveries Relating to the Antiquity of Man, Sir Arthur Keith, Williams and Northgate, London 1931. Page 466 contains the cited material.
By Sir Arthur Keith The conclusion I have come to is this: the law of Christ is incompatible with the law of evolution - as far as the law of evolution has worked hitherto. Nay, the two laws are at war with each other; the law of Christ can never prevail until the law of evolution is destroyed.
Racism has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and it has especially shown its ugly head during the last few centuries. Think of the myriads of Blacks carried from Africa and sold into slavery in the New World and, more recently, of the blatant racism of Nazi Germany. Even today, there are justifiable concerns along these lines. It is easy to condemn the sins of others, but how is it.
Sir Arthur Keith took for his subject “The Evolution of Human Races.” He traced Huxley's career as an anthropologist, and said that in his opinion, his final conclusion that the chief types or.
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955. Essays on human evolution. London: Watts (1946) (OCoLC)594754332 Online version.
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A series of interconnecting essays by a British anthropologist, which are concerned with man's evolution and morality, and in the light of present day history, refute many of the earlier concepts of Darwin, Huxley, etc. He believes that human nature has been developed by evolution; Germany's reversion to tribalism proves that evolution is not a basis for modern ethics. Here is an inquiry into.
The exposure of the Piltdown fraud clarified the sequence of human evolution by removing the greatest anomaly in the fossil record.The fraud had impeded recognition of the importance of hominin fossils discovered in Africa. The identity of the perpetrator of the Piltdown hoax has remained a mystery. Speculation has most often focused on Dawson himself, who may have been motivated by a desire.
A series of interconnecting essays by Scottish anatomist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) which center on man's evolution and morality, and in the light of preceding history, attempt to refute many of the earlier concepts of Darwin, Huxley, etc. Keith believed that human nature developed by evolution, with Nazi Germany's reversion to tribalism proving that evolution is not a.
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Sir Arthur Keith From Essays on Human Evolution (1946, 1947), 76.
