With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by IP Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting,
following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the�…

The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This
volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years�…

The proper subject of anthropology is humanity. That much is easily stated, but it is more
difficult to envision how such a science of humanity should be constructed. This article is an�…

Designed as both a text in anthropology and a comprehensive introduction to the subject for
any interested reader, this work considers the study of culture insofar as it has aided in the�…

Our views on human nature are fundamental to the whole development, indeed the whole
future, of human society. Originally published in 1974, Professor Thorpe believed that this�…

WHEN I was invited by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to prepare" a guest editorial on a
subject of my choice," concerning my views on anthropology, I was naturally flattered, but�…

The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the
possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the�…

The value of psychology as a science has been challenged in phenomenology and in other
epistemological trends. The main objective of this book is to draw the attention of students of�…

Several years ago a minor scandal erupted" in anthropology: one of its ancestral figures told
the truth in a public place. As befits an ancestor, he did it posthumously and through his�…

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a
tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers�…