The Orce Man : Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research

The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Reserach is a detailed account of a long controversy that shows the role of newspapers, politicians and scientists in how a scientific claim is belived in the late 20th century.

Contents

Introduction—The Orce Man
1 Discovery (1976– 1984)
1.1 Setting the Scientific and Political Scene
1.2 ‘Look What We’ve Found!’ The Orce Man among Politicians, Experts and the Public
1.3 The ‘Spanish Olduvai’ and the Discoverers’ Reward
1.4 A Great Post- Franco Discovery and a Small but Troubling Crest
2 Controversy (1984– 1987)
2.1 A Painful Trip to Paris: From Man to Donkey
2.2 A Country’s ‘Obsession’: ‘Is the Orce Man our Ancestor?’
2.3 Science in a ‘Different Dimension’
3 Conference (1987– 1996)
3.1 Gibert’s Research Team and the Conference Preparation
3.2 An International Conference as a ‘Tool’ to Convince
3.3 A Triple Victory (Science, Media and Politics)
3.4 Scientific Conferences: Much More than Debates among Colleagues
4 End (1996–2007)
4.1 An Unexpected Attack
4.2 Control of the Remains Means Control of the Research
4.3 The Process of Isolation
4.4 The Hominids That Came from the South: Gibert’s Popular Science Book
4.5 The End of a Long Controversy
5 A ‘First’ American to Compare: The Pedra Furada Controversy
6 Coda: The ‘Orce Boy’
7 The Orce Man: Controversy, Failure, Media and Politics
Annexes
Annex 1 Anatomical Features of the Orce Man
Annex 2 News from 1983 to 1999
Annex 3 The Travelling Bone
Bibliography
Index


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