History within : the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules / Marianne Sommer.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

viii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

History in bones: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) at the American Museum of Natural History -- From visual memory to "racial soul" -- Paper ancestors or "a word-painting of the scene and of the man or woman" -- The hall of the age of man: the politics of building a site of phylogenetic remembrance -- Creative evolution, or man's struggle up Mount Parnassus -- History within between science and fiction -- History in organisms: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) at the London Zoo and other institutions -- If I were dictator: the modern synthesis, evolutionary humanism, and a superhuman memory -- Evolution in action: the zoo as a site of phylogenetic remembrance -- Scientific humanism in the extended zoo: history within as the basis of democratic reform -- Evolutionary humanism: planned ecology and world heritage management through the Colonial Office, Unesco, IUCN, and WWF -- The ascent of man defended -- History in molecules: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922- ) and the genographic network -- Human history as Brownian motion, or how genetic trees and gene maps draw things together -- Cultural transmission and progress -- The geography of "our heritage": from the human genome diversity project to the genographic project -- The genographic network: science, markets, and genetic narratives -- The genographics of unity in diversity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-503) and index.