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Is This My Recompense To Thee? Adam's Long Shadow in the History of Science - The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. By Peter Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 305 pp. $95.00 cloth. - Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins. By David Livingstone. Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii + 306 pp. $35.00 cloth.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2009
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