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Re: RCA

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Steve White wrote:
> Sacraligious as it may sound, I'm trying to find out whether it's true that 
> RCA was sent to Mongolia by Henry Osborn to try and find evidence that Human 
> origins lay in central Asia not in the, er, 'dark' continent. I'm sure I 
> read this years ago but can't find any reference for it now. Can anyone help 
> me out?

http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/1998May/msg00087.html
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Andrews came back from his easy service during the war.  But rather 
than settle down and relax,  Andrews was planning with Henry Fairfield 
Osborn an expedition through the Gobi.  The purpose of the expedition 
was to find fossil evidence of a "missing-link" between humans and apes 
(an idea that is fundamentally racist as shown by Gould).  That was not 
the main reason for the expedition,  the others include : botany,  
zoology,  cartography,  archaeology,  geology,  ecology,  etc.  Andrews 
set off for Mongolia in March,  1921.  
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No source mentioned for this, however...