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IN the chapter entitled “The Natural History of Man “Prof. Ferris gives a very lucid summary of the most elementary facts of embryology and anatomy, which suggests to the uninitiated reviewer that the Society of the Sigma Xi, for whom the lectures in this book were prepared, is a lay body unfamiliar with biological teaching. As a means of interesting such an audience in some of the manifold aspects of biology and sociology these lectures no doubt served a useful purpose, but why call the volume “The Evolution of Man “? One would imagine that in a series of six lectures with such a title some one would have discussed seriously the problems of man's pedigree, and have attempted to explain how and why the human family acquired those distinctive attributes of brain and mind which conferred the rank of mankind,.upon it. But there nothing of the kind is to be found in the book.
The Evolution of Man: a Series of Lectures delivered before the Yale Chapter of the Sigma Xi during the Academic Year 1921–1922, by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, Edwin Grant Conklin.
Edited by George Alfred Baitsell. Pp. x + 202. (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1922.) 15s. net.
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The Evolution of Man: a Series of Lectures delivered before the Yale Chapter of the Sigma Xi during the Academic Year 1921–1922, by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, Edwin Grant Conklin. Nature 111, 735 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111735a0
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