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point of origin, extended over a long period of time, and must not be 

 pictured in terms of modern means of travel. There is very little 

 reason to suspect that the great transition from nonman to man 

 was in any way an abrupt event. 



It may be appropriate to bring this chapter on Anthropology to a 

 close with the following quotation from that genial old Roman drama- 

 tist, Terence : Homo sum ! humani nihil a me alienum puto. (I am 

 a man ; and I think nothing appertaining to mankind is foreign to 

 me.) 



SUGGESTED READINGS 



Andrews, R. C., On the Trail of Ancient Man, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. 



The barren wastes of the Gobi Desert, sand storms and blizzards, hostile 



tribes, chasing antelopes in automobiles, and toilsome digging for old 



bones alternate in these vivid pages. 

 Bean, R. B., The Races of Man, The University Society, 1932. 



Differentiation and dispersal of mankind, treated clearly in a few read- 

 able pages. 

 Carrel, Alexis, Man, the Unknown, Harper & Bros., 1935. 



A stimulating book by a Nobel prize man. 

 Gregory, W. K., Our Face from Fish to Man, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. 



An admirable illustrated account of human evolution as related by one 



of our foremost comparative anatomists. 

 Jones, F. W., Arboreal Man, Longmans, Green & Co., 1916. 



The thesis of man's arboreal origin convincingly presented. 

 Haddon, A. C, Races of Man and Their Distribution, The Macmillan Co., 



1925. 



Standard presentation for the beginner. One of the best. 

 Hooton, E. A., Uy from the Ape, The Macmillan Co., 1931. 



Evolution of man from the primates. Although scholarly and rather 



exhaustive, it is alluringly readable because of welcome oases of humor. 

 MacCurdy, G. G., The Coming of Man, The University Society, 1932. 



Prehistoric man, his remains and phases of his culture, and his relation 



to other primates, treated authoritatively with clearness and brevity. 

 MacCurdy, G. G., Human Origins, D. Appleton & Co., 1924. 



A scientific study of man's culture in the Old and New Stone ages, and 



the ages of Bronze and Iron. 

 Osborn, H. F., Men of the Old Stone Age, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. 



Authoritative, detailed, and fully illustrated. 

 Sullivan, L. R., Essentials of Anthropometry, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1923. 

 Wilder, H. H., The Pedigree of the Human Race, Henry Holt & Co., 1926. 

 Yerkes, R. M., Almost Human, The Century Co., 1925. 



A popular account of experiences with apes. 



