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Notable events of the nineteenth century. Great deeds of men and nations and the progress of the world, in a series of short studies (1896) History of the World, Comprising Evolution of Mankind and Story of All Races (4 volumes, 1894) The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature (25 volumes, 1898) James Otis, the pre-revolutionist (1898)
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 1857, Nott and Gliddon again co-edited a book, Indigenous Races of the Earth. [12] That book built upon the arguments in Types of Mankind that linked anthropology with "scientific" studies of race to establish a supposed natural hierarchy of the races. The book included chapters from Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury, J. Atkin Meigs, and Francis ...
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)
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
Published in 1943, The Races of Mankind was a pamphlet intended for American troops. It set forth, in simple language with cartoon illustrations, the scientific case against racist beliefs. [ 9 ] The publication of this pamphlet and the subsequent political furor that it caused during the 1950s, when it was decried as a piece of socialist ...
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003.
Kant published an essay Von den verschiedenen Racen der Menschen "On the diverse races of mankind" in 1775, based on the system proposed by Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, in which he recognized four groups, a "white" European race (Race der Weißen), a "black" Negroid race (Negerrace), a copper-red Kalmyk race (kalmuckishe Race) and an olive ...