Humankind
By: by Peter Farb.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Human beings.; Anthropology.
Description: Synthesizes the latest findings in the social sciences to provide a portrait of the evolution, biology, behavior, needs, adaptations, myths, and societies of man.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 502-518.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The ascent of humankind. Ape or angel? -- The importance of being a primate -- The hominid pattern -- Becoming human -- Human adaptations. The hunting-gathering adaptation -- Food production and its consequences -- The perennial peasants -- Urban influences -- Modernization : toward the world city -- The infinite variety of humankind. Male and female -- A diverse species -- The inheritance of variation -- The chimera of race -- The mind and the environment. The intelligent senses -- A world in the mind -- Humankind in the social network. The social bond -- The lowly and the mighty -- The family as an institution -- The human ages -- Epilogue : the future of the species.