Chris Knight (anthropologist)

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Chris Knight, August 2021, in support of Extinction Rebellion Chris Knight （born 1942） is a British anthropologist and political activist.
Following an MPhil in Russian Literature from the University of Sussex in 1975, Knight gained his PhD in 1987 at the University of London for a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss's four-volume Mythologiques.
He became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London in 1989 and a professor at the same institution in 2000.
Knight is a founding member of the "Radical Anthropology Group" （RAG）.
He is currently a senior research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London.
Since graduating from the University of Sussex in 1966, Knight has been exploring the idea that language and symbolic culture emerged in the human species through a process of Darwinian evolution culminating at a certain point in revolutionary change.
Becoming human was, according to this theory, a classic instance of a dialectical process, i.
e.
one in which quantitative change culminates eventually in a qualitative leap.
In pursuing this line of thought, Knight takes inspiration not only from modern Darwinian theorists such as Eörs Szathmáry and John Maynard Smith but also from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
who in their later years were fascinated by what was then the new science of anthropology.
In 1996, Knight co-founded the EVOLANG series of international conferences on the origins of language, since when he has become a prominent figure in debates on the origins of human symbolic culture and especially the origin of language.
In recognition of his contribution to evo...