Write an essay of about 1200-1500 words (roughly four to five pages) answering one of the following questions/prompts. Essays must be double-spaced in 12 pt font, with page numbers. Your paper needs to make an argument, and should be organized around quotes from the primary source texts to support your claims. Please provide citations for the quotes (using any citation method you wish). In your essay, you may want to discuss the larger historical contexts of ideas, in which case you should use the information from the textbook and from lecture. NO OUTSIDE MATERIALS should be consulted. Here is the question: Evolution and Anthropology. Explain the different ways that scientists and social scientists understood human evolution in the nineteenth century. How did evolution work for each thinker? What was its central driving mechanism? What was human evolution moving toward? How did each thinker deal with questions of race and gender in their conception of evolution? You must use THREE of the following authors in your response: Georges Cuvier, Charles Darwin, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Henry Lewis Morgan, and Sigmund Freud.
