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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- Part I: Andrew Fielding Huxley - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane -- Part II: Richard Keynes - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane -- Part III: Horace Barlow - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane -- Appendix: Biographical information - Compiled by Radha Béteille.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Of Mice and Moms -- Chapter 1: Momentum -- Chapter 2: Dad Genes -- Chapter 3: The Whole Shebang -- Chapter 4: Mommy Weirdest -- Chapter 5: Mother of Invention -- Chapter 6: In Search of the Mom Gene -- Chapter 7: Are You Kidding Me? -- Chapter 8: Thermometers -- Chapter 9: No Mom Is an Island -- Chapter 10: Motherland -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Introduction: Polynesia is a project, not a place -- The Polynesian problem: scientific production of the 'almost white' Polynesian race -- Heirlooms of the Aryan race: nineteenth-century studies of Polynesian origins -- Conditionally Caucasian: Polynesian racial classification in early twentieth-century eugenics and physical anthropology -- Hating Hawaiians, celebrating hybrid Hawaiian girls: sociology and the fictions of racial mixture -- Regenerative refusals: confronting contemporary legacies of the Polynesian problem in Hawaii and Oceania -- Still in the blood: blood quantum and self-determination in Day V. Apoliona and federal recognition -- The value of Polynesian dna: genomic solutions to the Polynesian problem -- Regenerating indigeneity: challenging possessive whiteness in contemporary Pacific art -- Conclusion. Regenerating an Oceanic future in indigenous space-time.