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Preface and Acknowledgments | |
Illustration and image credits | |
Journeys in Time and Space: Introduction and Aims of the Book | p. 1 |
Chronology: Then and Now The Structure of the Book and the Big Picture | |
1859: A Brave New World | p. 17 |
1859 | |
Human Origins and the Origin of Species | |
1859: The First 'Antiquity of Man' Debate | |
1859 and Onwards: The Geological Implications of Prestwich and Evans's Work | |
The Moulin Quignon Affair and the Triumph of Methodology | |
The 1860s: Owning, Administering and Populating the Antediluvian World | p. 53 |
E. B. Tylor and Evolutionary Anthropology | |
New Territory - How to Explore the Brave New World. | |
People and Politics in Human Origins Research in the 1860s | |
Human and Racial Origins in the Ethnological and Anthropological Societies | |
The 1860s: A Growing Sense of Time and Place | p. 75 |
Searching for the Evidence: Caves and Skeletons | |
Searching for the Evidence: Links to the Modern Races | |
The Concept of a Global Palaeolithic Period | |
Searching for the Evidence: Expanding on the British Sequence; Further Discoveries in the Drift | |
Comparisons with the European Evidence: Chronology and Caves on the Continent | |
Philosophising the Palaeolithic | p. 100 |
Theory and Interpretation in the 1860s: Philosophical Evolution | |
The Biologists: Alfred Russel Wallace and T.H. Huxley | |
The Geologist: Charles Lyell | |
The Anthropologist: John Lubbock | |
Thesis and Antithesis, but No Synthesis: The 1870s and the Darwinians in Power | p. 121 |
Under New Management | |
Ancient Stone Implements and Flint Chips | |
Challenges to Consensus and Consolidation | |
Debating the Challenges to Consensus | |
Theory Building in the 1870s | |
Augustus Lane Fox and Material Culture | |
The Eve of the War: The 1880s: Questioning Post-Glacial Man at the Start of the Tate Victorian Period | p. 156 |
The Geological Background | |
Palaeolithic Archaeology in the late Victorian Period | |
The Shape of Things to Come: Anthropology, Heredity, and Race in the 1880s and Early 1890s | p. 182 |
Tertiary Man | |
The Biological Study of Heredity in the late Victorian Period | |
Heredity and Race, the Anthropology of Observation | |
Francis Galton and the Anthropometric Laboratory | |
Evolutionary Anthropology, Race, Material Culture and the Universality of the Human Mind, 1880s-early 1890s | |
The Limited Palaeolithic Skeletal Data Set | |
The British Eolith Controversy: A Home Grown Human Origins Debate | p. 205 |
Dramatis Personae | |
Prestwich's Geological Views just Prior to the Beginning of the Eolith Debate | |
The Eolith Debate Begins | |
1889-1892: The Fighting Begins! The Geological Society and the Anthropological Institute | |
1892-1896: In the Storm - the Battle for the High Ground | |
1896-1901: Trying to Hold the High Ground | |
Many Meetings Eoliths and Palaeoliths in the 1890s | p. 248 |
Eoliths on Display: Academia, the Public, and the Press | |
Progress of Palaeolithic Research during the 1890s | |
Eoliths and Anthropology | |
The View from the Hill: Human Evolution in the 1890s | p. 277 |
The Story so Far | |
The Time Traveller's View of Evolution and Human Origins | |
The Informed Opinion of a Gentleman of Science | |
The Public's Engagement with Evolutionary Issues: Getting the Story Out, or How the Time Traveller Would Have Acquired his Understanding of Human Evolution | |
Science Fiction and H.G. Wells: Resolving the Conflict Between Past and Future | p. 289 |
Science Fiction in Victorian England | |
H.G. Wells's Science Fiction between 1888-1901 | |
Amazing Stories | p. 312 |
Scientific Romances: George Griffith | |
Prehistoric Fiction | |
Other Scientific Romances Relevant to Human Origins | |
Lost Worlds/Lost Races Fiction | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | p. 337 |
Appendix | p. 364 |
Index | p. 367 |
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