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SUMMARY:Jesus\, Darwin and Ashley Montagu - Prof. Gregory Radick\,  Univer
 sity of Leeds
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DESCRIPTION:Although never especially well known in Britain\, the London-b
 orn Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) became one of the most publicly visible ant
 hropologists in the United States in the mid-twentieth century\, thanks to
  a succession of popular books and frequent television appearances.  In th
 is talk I want to concentrate on his life and work in the early 1950s\, ne
 ar the start of his public career\, when he held an academic position (his
  last) at Rutgers University in New Jersey\, and published an extraordinar
 ily leftwing book on Darwin\, entitled Darwin: Competition and Cooperation
  (1952).  I’ll aim to recover the largely forgotten research programmes 
 that converged in the making of this book\, and more generally led Montagu
  in this period – the era of McCarthyism in American politics\, and the 
 Modern Synthesis in evolutionary biology – to contrast what he saw as an
  increasingly outmoded Darwinian message of hate and competition with an e
 ver-more scientifically respectable Christian message of love and cooperat
 ion.
LOCATION:Garden Room\, Library Building\, St. Edmund’s College
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