Man and His Migrations

An empire rises, a contest ends—and then R. G. Latham asks a stranger question: what can the human body tell us that the historian’s record cannot?

In this mid-19th-century inquiry, Latham draws a line between civil history, concerned with human actions and ideas, and the natural history of mankind. He introduces anthropology as the study of humans in comparison with other animals, and ethnology as the study of the varieties among human populations. From the shape of a hand to the spread of peoples across the earth, he asks how origins, climate and geography shape the human story. To understand our migrations, must we first decide what makes us alike—and what makes us different?

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