Abstract
THROUGHOUT Nature the struggle for existence is usually an orderly and peaceful process, and it may not be possible to explain in simple terms just why one species succeeds in supplanting another. Only occasionally even in the animal world can such replacement be attributed to superiority in open conflict. In the history of man, too, it has been the bloodless battles in times of peace, between obscure biological forces affecting the balance of births and deaths, which have generally proved more decisive than wars in deciding which peoples shall survive and which shall disappear. This aspect of human evolution is emphasized and well illustrated by Prof. S. J. Holmes in his thoughtful examination of the vital statistics of the Negro in America.
The Negro's Struggle for Survival:
a Study in Human Ecology. By Prof. S. J. Holmes. Pp. xii + 296. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press ; London: Cambridge University Press, 1937.) 13s. 6d. net.
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S., P. The Negro Struggle for Survival. Nature 142, 973–974 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142973a0
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