Finding Aid to the Vincent Sarich Papers
Lara Michels
The Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-6481
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Vincent Sarich papers
Creator:
Sarich, Vincent
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2015/120
Physical Description:
7.50 linear feet
(6 cartons)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1979-1999
Abstract: Papers of anthropologist Vincent Sarich dating from approximately 1979 to 1999.
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Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Vincent Sarich papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Jorjan Sarich in 2015.
Processed by Bancroft Library Staff in 2015.
[Identification of item], Vincent Sarich papers, BANC MSS 2015/120, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Vincent Sarich (1934-2012) was a professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley from
1966 to 1994. Before coming to UC Berkeley, he was professor of anthropology at Stanford University from 1967 to 1981. Sarich
focused his research on human variation, comparative biochemistry, molecular evolution, mammalian systematics, primate evolution,
and the evolution of human behavior. Early in his career, Sarich and his doctoral supervisor, Allan Wilson, published a seminal
paper in the journal
Science in which he challenged standard interpretations of the fossil record that estimated the divergence time of humans and apes
as 10 to 30 million years. Sarich established a reputation as a controversial scholar of race and racial differentiation.
He as an vocal opponent of affirmative action and published a notable and favourable review of Charles Murray's and Richard
Herrnstein's controversial 1994 book
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
Files relating to Sarich's teaching as well as to his work on race, evolution, linguistics, and phylogenies. Collection also
includes some general professional files and personalia. There are some files relating to Sarich's work on affirmative action.
Materials in the files date from 1979 to 1999 and include correspondence, writings, and notes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sarich, Vincent
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Anthropology
Race
Physical anthropology
Phylogeny
Affirmative action programs
Evolution
Faculty papers
Series 2: Linguistics approximately 1978-1999
Physical Description: Carton 2, folder 1-15
Correspondence; work with William S.Y. Wang; race and language in prehistory; African Grey Parrot; Native Americans; Austronesian
languages; Sue Taylor Parker; phylogenies/evolution; Friedrich Schlegal; assorted articles; Occam's Razor; language trees;
miscellaneous notes.
Series 3: Evolution approximately 1979-1999
Physical Description: Carton 2, folder 16-30; carton 3, folder 1-20
Carton 2: Miscellaneous correspondence; education; evolution versus creationism; Duane T. Gish; P.H. Gosse; Hugh H. Iltis;
sex in anthropology; Greg Ransom; free will; human behavior; Lee Ellis; Edward M. Miller and Lee Willerman; Advanced Progressive
Matrices; schizophrenia; brain size. Carton 3: Mental development; John Allen; diabetes; sex differences; Steven Goldberg;
The Bell Curve; human variation/race; molecular clock; primatology; Royal Society; Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects
correspondence; Fleagle Seminar; Denisova; R.A. Gardner; prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals; lecture on Evolution; human origins
notes/materials; articles featuring Sarich; miscellaneous.
Series 4: Race approximately 1979-1999
Physical Description: Carton 3, folder 21-33; carton 4, folder 1-18
Carton 3: Correspondence; Peter Brown correspondence; materials relating to Sarich's opposition to affirmative action; Cal
Sciences interview; Skeptic Magazine; Carleton Putnam. Carton 4: James A. Clifton; Bernard Davis, Harvard Medical School;
political correctness; UCB affirmative action; racism; J. Philippe Rushton; intelligence; athletes; University of Delaware;
David Lloyd; statistics/data; Race and the Human Condition (book proposal); Race and the Bell Curve (typescript); Race and
Language in Prehistory (reprint); Martin Nemko; evolutionary/biological evidence; miscellaneous.
Series 5: Phylogenies approximately 1979-1999
Physical Description: Carton 5, folder 19-35; carton 6, folder 1-8
Carton 4: Lab images; JME paper review; Francois Catzeflis correspondence and research; correspondence with John D. Pettigrew,
John Kirsch, Charles Sibley, Allan Wilson, Storrs Olsen, American Scientist (regarding Jon Marks), Rodney L. Honeycult, Roger
Lewin, Ralph Estling; miscellaneous correspondence; interview of Sarich and Fleagle; Sarich and Wilson research on molecular
evolution; typescript of DNA Hybridization ala Sibley and Ahlquist or Is this any way to do science? (volume 1). Carton 5:
Typescript of DNA Hybridization ala Sibley and Ahlquist or Is this any way to do science? (volume 2); Sibley/Ahlquist dispute;
Jonathan Marks; Sarich and Lowenstein papers; assorted article reprints and reviews; materials relating tot he 4th International
Theriological Congress; grant proposals; marsupials; whales; serology; blood; spot immunoprecipitate assay; avian phylogenies
papers; bats papers and research; melted DNA diagrams; notes on morphological difference; notebooks; Lemur/Loris project.
Carton 6: lab notebooks, notes.