Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World

我们的研究表明，澳大利亚的科学家、澳大利亚的实地经验和澳大利亚的材料是20世纪比较解剖学、进化论和种族科学的核心。这项研究首次揭示了种族生物学家和体质人类学家强大的帝国网络，他们对人性和种族分类的有影响力的研究源于澳大利亚的工作。这些关于人的意义的观点，迄今尚未得到历史的检验，继续支撑着我们当代关于种族差异、土著地位、多元文化主义和民族认同的假设。

Our research demonstrates how Australian scientists, Australian field experiences, and Australian materials were central to comparative anatomy, evolutionary theory and race science in the twentieth century. This study uncovers for the first time the powerful imperial network of racial biologists and physical anthropologists whose influential studies of human nature and racial classification derived from Australian work. These ideas about what it means to be human, hitherto unexamined historically, continue to underpin our contemporary assumptions about ethnic difference, Aboriginal status, multiculturalism, and national identity.