The same fossil evidence serves universal science or nationalistic myth

Evidence

In the West, scientists treat the Chinese fossil evidence as part of the broad picture of human evolution world-wide; in China, it is part of national history - an ancient and fragmentary part, it is true, but none the less one that is called upon to promote a unifying concept of unique origin and continuity within the Chinese nation. (Reader, 1990:111) Serological studies have also been carried out to highlight the biological proximity of all minorities to the Han. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3347 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The same fossil evidence becomes world history or national myth depending on context — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3347; Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land; Sacralized nationalist myth suppresses concrete land history and indigenous presence — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 355

Broader Connections

• The same fossil evidence becomes world history or national myth depending on context #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3347