Wild Man from Borneo: species, race, representation

本项目探讨了19世纪和20世纪西方对猩猩物种边界的描述。达尔文的理论提出了动物进化的可能性。猩猩似乎离我们最近？因此提出了关于人类和动物之间边界的关键问题。这些问题在大量的科学、通俗、想象和青少年文学中得到了解决。即使当环境的生态模型将注意力从进化潜力转移到生态作用时，猩猩仍然保持着“哨兵”的特殊地位。物种。这个项目将产生一本专著，研究物种边界观念的构建、维护和侵蚀。

This project addresses the representation of species boundaries in Western accounts of the orangutan in the 19th and 20th centuries. Darwinian theory raised the possibility that animals could ?evolve?. Orangutans seemed ?closest? to humans and therefore raised key questions about the border between humans and animals. These questions were addressed in a vast range of scientific, popular, imaginative and juvenile literature. Even when ecological models of the environment shifted attention from evolutionary potential to ecological role, orangutans retained a special status as ?sentinel? species. This project will produce a monograph examining the construction, maintenance and erosion of ideas of species boundaries.