Abstract

Biological anthropology often treats its species as if they were natural, zoological units. While biologists sometimes acknowledge the contested aspects of species, I argue that the taxa in our own ancestry are different from those in zoology more generally, by virtue of their roles as characters or elements in our scientific origin myth.

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