{"id":4930,"date":"2021-07-27T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:09:05","slug":"unes-david-livingston-smiths-paper-argues-that-the-category-human-does-not-correspond-to-any-biological-taxon-and-is-instead-a-political-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/unes-david-livingston-smiths-paper-argues-that-the-category-human-does-not-correspond-to-any-biological-taxon-and-is-instead-a-political-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"UNE&#8217;s David Livingston Smith&#8217;s paper argues that the  category &#8220;human&#8221; does not correspond to any biological taxon and is instead a political construction."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Livingstone Smith presented a paper titled &#8220;&#8216;Human&#8217; is an essentially political category&#8221; on July 8 at a conference on Human Dignity and Human Rights: Rethinking the Connection sponsored by Monash University in Australia.&nbsp; Smith&#8217;s paper argues that the category &#8220;human&#8221; does not correspond to any biological taxon and is instead a political construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Livingstone Smith presented a paper titled &#8220;&#8216;Human&#8217; is an essentially political category&#8221; on July 8 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}