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The Royal Society of Biologists in the UK shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Awards. [15] Bill Gates ranked Sapiens among his ten favorite books, [16] and Mark Zuckerberg also recommended it. [17] Kirkus Reviews awarded a star to the book, noting that it is "the great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor". [18]
In The Descent of Man, Darwin noted the great difficulty naturalists had in trying to decide how many "races" there actually were: Man has been studied more carefully than any other animal, and yet there is the greatest possible diversity amongst capable judges whether he should be classed as a single species or race, or as two (Virey), as ...
The books of Franz Boas were burned in Germany. In 1942, after [Boas'] death, Ruth Benedict, my senior colleague in the Anthropology Department, and I felt that we should carry the banner on the race question. In 1943, Ruth Benedict and I collaborated on a pamphlet, "The Races of Mankind," published by the
The Mind of Primitive Man is a 1911 book by anthropologist Franz Boas which takes a critical look at the concept of primitive culture. [1] The work challenged widely held racist and eugenic claims about race and intelligence, particularly white supremacy. [2]
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.
In 1843, he traveled to Africa and India to research human races. In 1848, Pickering published Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution, which enumerated eleven races. Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857). Josiah Clark Nott and George Robins Gliddon implied that "Negroes" were a creational rank between "Greeks" and chimpanzees.
Books. Sanskrit. Its origin, composition and diffusion (1949) Origin of Heraldry in Europe (1953) Races of Mankind: Their Origin and Migration (1960, 2nd Ed. 1961) Concise History of Freemasonry: including Knight Templary (1964)