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TWENTY-ONE papers by twenty authors constitute a symposium inspired and edited by the professor of anthropology of Columbia University. The majority are of rather specialized anthropological interest, though there are some-notably “The Present State of World Resources”, by H. A. Meyer -hoff (professor of geology at Smith College)-which fit with difficulty into the pattern of the volume. The range of topics is intentionally wide in order to meet Prof. Linton's purpose. He points to the recent flood of books concerned with plans for world reorganisation, and supports the generally accepted view that the problems involved in the planning of civilization are so complex that they can be solved only by collaboration between workers in many different fields of scientific inquiry. Aware that more than a generation may elapse before the discoveries and techniques of one science become part of the regular working equipment of other sciences, he offers the present volume in an attempt to shorten the time interval.
The Science of Man in the World Crisis
Edited by Ralph Linton. Pp. xv + 532. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1945.) 23s. 6d. net.
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FITZGERALD, W. The Science of Man in the World Crisis. Nature 157, 208 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157208a0
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