THE COEVOLUTION OF HUMAN ORIGINS, HUMAN VARIATION, AND THEIR MEANING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Jonathan Marks

doi:10.1111/zygo.12482

Terence Keel's Divine Variations: A Symposium
THE COEVOLUTION OF HUMAN ORIGINS, HUMAN VARIATION, AND THEIR MEANING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
with Terence D. Keel, “The Religious Preconditions for the Race Concept in Modern Science”; Yiftach Fehige, “In What Sense Exactly Did Christianity Give Us Racial Science?”; Ernie Hamm, “Christian Thought, Race, Blumenbach, and Historicizing”; Jonathan Marks, “The Coevolution of Human Origins, Human Variation, and Their Meaning in the Nineteenth Century”; Elizabeth Neswald, “Racial Science and ‘Absolute Questions’: Reoccupations and Repositions”; and Terence D. Keel, “Response to My Critics: The Life of Christian Racial Forms in Modern Science.”

Jonathan Marks

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Abstract

Ideas about biology, race, and theology were bound up together in nineteenth‐century scholarship, although they are rarely, if ever, considered together today. Nevertheless, the new genealogical way of thinking about the history of life arose alongside a new way of thinking about the Bible, and a new way of thinking about people. They connected with one another in subtle ways, and modern scholarly boundaries do not map well on to nineteenth‐century scholarship.