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Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
David N. LivingstoneQueen’s University Belfast
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
“…all human beings, despite differences in external appearance, are really members of a single entity that’s had a very recent origin in one place. There is a kind of biological brotherhood that’s much more profound than we ever realized” Stephen Jay Gould
We are all Africans at the Y chromosome level and we are really all brothersPeter Underhill
“the Bible is the history of OUR
people – the White people of the race
that loosely we group under the
term Anglo-Saxon” Bertrand Comparet
(1901-1983)
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
“… tho’ it be a little Heterodox, I am persuaded the black and white Race have, ab origine, sprung from different-coloured first Parents” John Atkins (1735)
“If we admit that such great varieties can be produced in the same species as we find
to exist in man, it would be easy to maintain the
probability that several species of simiae are but
varieties of the species Man … And if the argument be still
further extended, almost all the animal kingdom might
be deduced from one pair, and be considered as one family; than which a more degrading notion certainly cannot be entertained” Charles White (1799)
“I must repeat here an observation which I made in the beginning of this essay … that the denial of the unity of the human species tends to impair, if not entirely destroy, the foundations of duty and morals, and, in a word, of the whole science of human nature. No general principles of conduct, or religion, or even of civil policy could be derived from natures originally and essentially different from one another, and, afterwards, in the perpetual changes of the world, infinitely mixed and compounded … But when the whole human race is known to compose only one species, this confusion and uncertainty is removed, and the science of human nature, in all its relations, becomes susceptible of system. The principles of morals rest on sure and immutable foundations” Samuel Stanhope Smith (1810)
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
Some of Lane’s artwork from Description of Egypt
Edward William Lane in Turkish costume
“ with magnanimity and abnegation…
they generously disclaim the honour
of this simial relationship, and
benevolently bestow it upon poor
Quashee” Thomas Verner Moore
(1852)
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
• Darwinian Mutations
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
Alexander Winchell
“The time arrived, at length, when, under the law of progressive development, a grade had been reached nearly on a level with that of modern civilized man, in respect to native capacities. Now appeared the founder of the Adamic family. His home was in central Asia”
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
• Darwinian Mutations
• Preadamism, Fundamentalism and Anti-Evolutionism
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
Sir Arthur KeithSir Ambrose Fleming
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
• Darwinian Mutations
• Preadamism, Fundamentalism and Anti-Evolutionism
Wider Domains
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
• Harmonising Strategies
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
• Darwinian Mutations
• Preadamism, Fundamentalism and Anti-Evolutionism
Wider Domains
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
• Harmonising Strategies
• Cultural Politics
Genetics, Genesis and Genealogy
Adam’s Ancestors
• Monumental Heresy
• Defenders and Detractors
• Preadamites as Peacemakers
• Darwinian Mutations
• Preadamism, Fundamentalism and Anti-Evolutionism
Wider Domains
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
Adam’s Long Shadow
• Harmonising Strategies
• Cultural Politics
“Simply but dramatically put, Adam has played a crucial part in giving
us science and our selves”
ADAM’S LONG SHADOW
Adam’s Bloodline: Genesis Race and Human Origins
David N. LivingstoneQueen’s University Belfast