Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Comparative anatomy, Cassowary, Thomas Rowlandson: 1820
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Comparative anatomy, Cassowary, Thomas Rowlandson: 1820
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Thomas Rowlandson studied physiognomy, crainology, and comparative
anatomy. He felt that human beings were close to the animal, even
the inanimate due to age or excess. Rowlandson felt that people and
art were focused on human apetites: sex, eating, drinking. Here we
find an example of comparative anatomy. Recall, Charles Darwin and
Alfred Russel Wallace were not yet known, and the ideas of Charles
Lyell had not yet been absorbed. Cultural Anthropology had not yet
been studied, rather it was replaced by Racism based upon Physical
Anthropology and the racism of such Enlightenment figures as
Voltaire and Immanuel Kant.
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