Essay review: Primate visions, a model for historians of science?
@article{FaustoSterling1990EssayRP, title={Essay review: Primate visions, a model for historians of science?}, author={Anne Fausto-Sterling}, journal={Journal of the History of Biology}, year={1990}, volume={23}, pages={329-333} }
Primate Visions has changed my life. Brought up near New York City, I thrilled to my trips to the Museum of Natural History. The great halls filled with skeletons of giant animals both extant and extinct, the dioramas depicting the lives of distant peoples, and, perhaps most wonderful of all, the great mammals of Africa moved me deeply, confirming my desire to study nature for myself. Reading Donna Haraway's account of the building of the Great Hall of Africa (chap. 3, "Teddy Bear Patriarchy…
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