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• Human beings
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• Human evolution

• Monogenism and polygenism

• Antiquity of human beings
• Origin of human beings

• Adamites and Preadamites: or, A Popular Discussion Concerning the Remote Representatives of the Human Species and Their Relation to the Biblical Adam (Syracuse, NY: J. T. Roberts, 1878), by Alexander Winchell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Antiquity of Man, by Charles Lyell, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (New York: D. Appleton, 1873), by Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at MOA)
• The Last Link: Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898), by Ernst Haeckel, ed. by Hans Gadow
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Google: US access only
• Man's Place in Nature, and Other Anthropological Essays (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Thomas Henry Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Manual of the Antiquity of Man (ninth edition; Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1880), by J. P. MacLean (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Origin and Antiquity of Physical Man Scientifically Considered, by Hudson Tuttle (page images at MOA)
• Preadamites: or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam, Together With a Study of Their Condition, Antiquity, Racial Affinities, and Progressive Dispersion Over the Earth (fourth edition; Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co.; London: Trubner and Co., 1888), by Alexander Winchell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• What is Man? or, Creationism vs. Evolutionism (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1908), by Judson D. Burns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the Earth, by James Cocke Southall (page images at MOA)
• L'Homme Fossile de la Chapelleaux-Saints (Corrèze) (extract from l'Anthropologie v. 19, in French; Paris: Masson et Cie, 1909), by Marcellin Boule (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on the Natural History of Mankind, Viewed in Connection With Negro Slavery: Delivered Before the Southern Rights Association, 14th December, 1850 (Mobile, AL: Dade, Thompson, 1851), by Josiah C. Nott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Creation: or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by E. Ray Lankester
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The History of Creation: or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by E. Ray Lankester
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Natur und Mensch (in German; Leipzig: P. Reclam Jr., ca. 1912), by Ernst Haeckel, ed. by Carl W. Neumann (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte: Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Goethe, und Lamarck im Besonderen (in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1868), by Ernst Haeckel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan (1913), by Kaiten Nukariya
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen (third, revised edition, in German; Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1877), by Ernst Haeckel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (first edition; London: John Murray, 1871), by Charles Darwin
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online
• The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Ernst Haeckel
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study (2 volumes in 1; London: Watts and Co., 1906), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Evolution of Man: A Popular Scientific Study (2 volumes; London: Watts and Co., 1911-1912), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text

• Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, With an Archeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization, From Years of Careful Examination and Enquiry (second edition; Philadelphia: Harper and Brother, 1880), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Lectures on the Connection Between the Biblical and Physical History of Man: Delivered By Invitation from the Chair of Political Economy, etc., of the Louisiana University, in December 1848 (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1849), by Josiah C. Nott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible Account of Origin of Races: Baptists vs. World Evils (c1921), by J. R. Lamb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Is the Negro a Beast? A Reply to Chas. Carroll's Book Entitled "The Negro a Beast", Proving That the Negro is Human From Biblical, Scientific, and Historical Standpoints (Moundsville, WV: Gospel Trumpet Pub. Co., 1901), by Wm. G. Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The Negro a Beast" or "In the Image of God" (St. Louis: American Book and Bible House, 1900), by Charles Carroll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Types of Mankind (seventh edition; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855), by Josiah C. Nott and George R. Gliddon (page images at MOA)
• La Raza Negra es la Más Antigua de las Razas Humanas (in Spanish; Valladolid: Tip. de S. Pérez, 1901), by Gervasio Fournier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races, With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind (with an appendix by Nott on "the question of unity or plurality of species" of humans; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856), by Arthur Gobineau, ed. by H. Hotz, contrib. by Josiah C. Nott
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior (c1999), by Craig B. Stanford (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)
• Australia and New Zealand as the Home of a New Sub-Race: Four Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the Theosophical Society of Sydney in August, 1915 (Sydney: Theosophical Society in Australia, ca. 1915), by C. W. Leadbeater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homo Schizo (2 volumes), by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Meaning of Infancy, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Studies on the Evolution of the Primates (two studies by Gregory, and an appendix by Matthew, extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1916), by William K. Gregory, contrib. by William Diller Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Antiquity of Man, by Charles Lyell, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
• The River that Flows Uphill, by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Evolution: Guilty as Charged, by Frederick C. Kubicek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Tendencies Toward Race Degeneracy (reprinted from the New York Medical Journal by US Senator Townsend; Washington: GPO, 1912), by John Harvey Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Freedom: The End of the Human Condition (second edition, 2019), by Jeremy Griffith (multiple formats with commentary at humancondition.com)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

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