41 relations: Abraham Nott, Alabama Legislature, American Civil War, An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, Arthur de Gobineau, Biological anthropology, Brain size, Braxton Bragg, Cause (medicine), Charles Darwin, Common descent, Confederate States of America, Craniometry, Creationism, Daniel Ruggles, Evolution, Federalist Party, George Gliddon, Henri de Boulainvilliers, Henry Hotze, Louis Agassiz, Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury, Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama), Malaria, Medical school, Miasma theory, Mobile, Alabama, Mosquito, Multiregional origin of modern humans, Physician, Polygenism, Recent African origin of modern humans, Samuel George Morton, Scientific racism, South Carolina, Southern United States, Staff (military), Surgeon, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, University of Pennsylvania, Yellow fever.
Abraham Nott
Abraham Nott (February 5, 1768 – June 19, 1830) was a United States Representative from South Carolina.
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Alabama Legislature
The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of Alabama.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, 1853–1855) is the famous work of French writer Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, which argues that there are differences between human races, that civilizations decline and fall when the races are mixed and that the white race is superior.
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Arthur de Gobineau
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known today for helping to legitimise racism by use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography" and for his developing the theory of the Aryan master race.
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Biological anthropology
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors.
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Brain size
The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy and evolution.
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Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who was assigned to duty at Richmond, under direction of the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and charged with the conduct of military operations of the armies of the Confederate States from February 24, 1864 until January 13, 1865, when he was charged with command and defense of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Cause (medicine)
Cause, also known as etiology and aetiology, is the reason or origination of something.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Common descent
Common descent describes how, in evolutionary biology, a group of organisms share a most recent common ancestor.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.
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Craniometry
Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium.
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Creationism
Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine creation",Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that creationism is 'the belief that the universe and living organisms originated from specific acts of divine creation.'" as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes.
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Daniel Ruggles
Daniel Ruggles (January 31, 1810 – June 1, 1897) was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Federalist Party
The Federalist Party, referred to as the Pro-Administration party until the 3rd United States Congress (as opposed to their opponents in the Anti-Administration party), was the first American political party.
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George Gliddon
George Robbins Gliddon (1809 – November 16, 1857) was an English-born American Egyptologist.
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Henri de Boulainvilliers
Henri de Boulainvilliers (21 October 1658, Saint-Saire, Normandy – 23 January 1722, Paris) was a French nobleman, writer and historian.
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Henry Hotze
Henry Hotze (September 2, 1833 – April 19, 1887) was a Swiss American propagandist for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
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Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history.
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Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury
Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury (March 23, 1817 – February 11, 1892), was a French scholar and physician, important because his ideas about the interpretation of dreams and the effect of external stimuli on dreams pre-dated those of Sigmund Freud.
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Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic city cemetery located in Mobile, Alabama.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.
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Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution —or part of such an institution— that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons.
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Miasma theory
The miasma theory (also called the miasmatic theory) is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, ancient Greek: "pollution"), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air.
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Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
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Mosquito
Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.
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Multiregional origin of modern humans
The multiregional hypothesis, multiregional evolution (MRE), or polycentric hypothesis is a scientific model that provides an alternative explanation to the more widely accepted "Out of Africa" model of monogenesis for the pattern of human evolution.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Polygenism
Polygenism is a theory of human origins which posits the view that the human races are of different origins (polygenesis).
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Recent African origin of modern humans
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model (RAO), is the dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
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Samuel George Morton
Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician and natural scientist.
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Scientific racism
Scientific racism (sometimes referred to as race biology, racial biology, or race realism) is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Staff (military)
A military staff (often referred to as general staff, army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian personnel that are responsible for the administrative, operational and logistical needs of its unit.
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Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a physician who performs surgical operations.
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
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References
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