ABSTRACT
The very origins of human life, the question of how we came to be the way we are, to which palaeoanthropologists apply themselves. The purpose of this chapter is to study the means by which scientifically categorized knowledge is made sense of within the public realm. In the present study anchoring refers to the process by which missing links are made to fit within the animal human binary of popular culture. Before exploring these processes empirically it is instructive to consider the scientific category 'Homo', as it is demonstrative of the self-interested role we Homo sapiens play in the process of creating order from nature's disorder which rests at the heart of this chapter. We set out in this chapter to analyse how the categorization of missing links hybrids of human and nonhuman animal change as they move from within science outwards into the public realm.
