![]() ![]() This article illustrates how human-origins research was an important means of binding these areas together and presenting scientific work as simultaneously authoritative and credible, but also evoking mystery and adventurousness. This international link – simultaneously promoted by scientists in China and in Britain itself – reflected wider debates on international networks the role of science in the modern world and changing definitions of race, progress and human nature. ![]() ![]() This article examines their publicization and discussion in Britain, where they were engaged with by some of the world's leading authorities in human evolution, and a media and public highly interested in human-origins research. The Peking Man fossils discovered at Zhoukoudian in north-east China in the 1920s and 1930s were some of the most extensive palaeoanthropological finds of the twentieth century. ![]()
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