CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface v 



Introduction Edwin R. Embree vii 



List of Contributors xvii 



PART I 

 Perspective 



Chapter 



I. Life IN Space AND Time Henry Norris Russell 3 



PART II 

 The Origin of Man 



II. Evolution Traced Biochemically A. B. Macallum 35 



III. The Animal Ancestry of Man William K. Gregory 53 



IV. The Evolution of the Brain George H. Parker 91 



V. Mental Evolution in the Primates. . . Robert M. Yerkes 115 



VI. Societal Evolution W. M. Wheeler 139 



VII. Human Races Ales Hrdli^ka 156 



PART III 

 Man as a Physiological Unit 



VIII. The Vital Units Called Cells E. V. Cowdry 187 



IX. The Relation of Cells to One Another. . . Alexis Carrel 205 



X. The Integrative Action of the Vascular System 219 



W. B. Cannon 



XI. Nervous Integrations in Man 246 



J. F. Fulton, Sir C. S. Sherrington 

 XII. The Integration of the Sexes — Marriage . . Clark Wissler 266 



PART IV 



Effects of Environment 



XIII. The Effect of Climate and Weather Ellsworth Huntington 295 



XIV. The Reaction to Food Elmer V. McColIum 331 



XV. The Influence of Urban and Rural Environment .... 348 



Haven Emerson, Earle B. Phelps 



XVI. Antisocial Behavior: Delinquency and Crime 379 



William Healy 



XVII. Adjustment to Infectious Disease Hans Zinsser 406 



XVIII. What Medicine Has Done and Is Doing for the Race . . 428 



Sir Humphry RoIIeston 

 XIX. The Relation of Science to Industry . . R. A. Millikan 458 



XX. The Influence of Education John Dewey 468 



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