Author: George RawlinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Origin of Nations
Author: George RawlinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A Nation of Descendants
Author: Francesca MorganPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.
The Origin of the English Nation
Author: Hector Munro ChadwickPublisher: Cambridge, U.P
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Descent of Man
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions
Author: The Day of Descent
Author: Judith Reeves-StevensPublisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671735999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The long-awaited first, original novel based on the critically acclaimed television show. Part SF and part hard-hitting police drama, Alien Nation introduces the Tenctonese, an alien race of former slaves who land in the California desert and, by the year 1995, comprise the world's newest and strangest group of immigrants: the "Newcomers".
The History of the Hebrew Nation and Its Literature
Author: Samuel SharpeThe Descent of Man
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
INTRODUCTION. The nature of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing on the subject, but rather with the determination not to publish, as I thought that I should thus only add to the prejudices against my views. It seemed to me sufficient to indicate, in the first edition of my 'Origin of Species,' that by this work "light would be thrown on the origin of man and his history;" and this implies that man must be included with other organic beings in any general conclusion respecting his manner of appearance on this earth. Now the case wears a wholly different aspect. When a naturalist like Carl Vogt ventures to say in his address as President of the National Institution of Geneva (1869), "personne, en Europe au moins, n'ose plus soutenir la creation indépendante et de toutes pièces, des espèces," it is manifest that at least a large number of naturalists must admit that species are the modified descendants of other species; and this especially holds good with the younger and rising naturalists. The greater number accept the agency of natural selection; though some urge, whether with justice the future must decide, that I have greatly overrated its importance. Of the older and honoured chiefs in natural science, many unfortunately are still opposed to evolution in every form. In consequence of the views now adopted by most naturalists, and which will ultimately, as in every other case, be followed by others who are not scientific, I have been led to put together my notes, so as to see how far the general conclusions arrived at in my former works were applicable to man. This seemed all the more desirable, as I had never deliberately applied these views to a species taken singly. When we confine our attention to any one form, we are deprived of the weighty arguments derived from the nature of the affinities which connect together whole groups of organisms—their geographical distribution in past and present times, and their geological succession. The homological structure, embryological development, and rudimentary organs of a species remain to be considered, whether it be man or any other animal, to which our attention may be directed; but these great classes of facts afford, as it appears to me, ample and conclusive evidence in favour of the principle of gradual evolution. The strong support derived from the other arguments should, however, always be kept before the mind.
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of The People of India
Author: J. MuirPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375046138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 3d ed. 1874
Author: John MuirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brahmanism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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