An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind
Date
1788Publisher
Edinburgh : Philadelphia printed, and Edinburgh reprinted for C. Elliot ... and C. Elliot and T. Kay ...Type
Book
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"The substance of the following essay was delivered in the annual oration, before the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, February 28, 1787.--And the whole is published at the request of the Society." -- p. [iii]"A New Edition. With Some Additional Notes, By a Gentleman of the University of Edinburgh."
Keyword
Anthropology--MiscellaneaMonogenism and polygenism
Human skin color
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782