Robert Knox

Robert Knox (4 September, 1791 — 20 December, 1862) was a doctor, natural scientist and traveller. He is best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare body-snatching case in Edinburgh. However, in 1868 James Hunt described him as "the great modern British Anthropologist, whose cruel history has yet to be written..." To modern eyes Knox's anthropology's most striking feature is its virulent racism. This has eclipsed some of its intellectual novelty given the pre-Darwinian context that Knox wrote in.

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4 September - 1791 - 20 December - 1862 - Burke and Hare - 1868 - Anthropology - Racism - Darwinian

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