Closing Doors and Opening Gates: Professor Ruggles Gates, “Race Crossing” Research, and the Strange Survival of Scientific Racism in Post-war Australia
In 1958, botanist-biologist Professor Reginald Gates conducted biometric and anthropometric “race crossing” studies on populations spanning Australia and Papua New Guinea. Gates is largely remembered as an anachronistic conservative whose opposition to interracial marriage and belief in race theory...
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2025-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2025-0006 |
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