biography
| name: |
Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord
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pronunciation:
[monbodoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1714–99)
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| biography:
| Judge and pioneer anthropologist, born in Monboddo, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. He studied at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Gröningen, was called to the Scottish bar, and in 1767 was raised to the bench as Lord Monboddo. His Origin and Progress of Language (6 vols, 1773–92) is a learned but eccentric production, but his theory of human affinity with monkeys anticipated Darwin and the modern science of anthropology. |
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