Emily Kern

Historian of modern global science who specializes in the history of human evolution and paleoanthropology. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales. She is currently at work on a book about the long history of the African origins hypothesis and the search for the cradle of humankind. Her research focuses on the relationship between the production of scientific knowledge about the human species and the production of global political power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.