Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

Quote by George A Dorsey

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Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is...

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is...

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that...

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that...

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere...

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish...

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish...

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a...

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a...

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and...

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and...