Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins / David N. Livingstone.

Author: Livingstone, David N., 1953-

Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

Descriptionx, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record -- Heresy : Isaac La Peyrère and the pre-Adamite scandal -- Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative -- Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion -- Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology -- Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam -- Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy -- Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse -- Dimensions : concluding reflections.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index.

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