After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human speci

After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human speci

‘A meteor of spirit, science, talent and activity’ – thus Goethe described Petrus Camper (1722-1789). Goethe’s words contain all the elements that make

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful,

Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over th