Human Ancestry from a Genetical Point of View
Reginald Ruggles GatesReginald Gates presents his study of the evolution of man and the anthropoids from the genetical and anthropological points of view. He surveys the origin and history of the races of mankind throughout the world and studies the Polynesians, Melanesians, and Negroes, most of whom developed, he believes, at a comparatively late date. He considers the question of species. He finally develops the conclusion that the modern so-called races of man are not simultaneously divergents from a single stock, and that there has been much independent evolution from diverse ancestral stocks.
Professor Earnest Hooton, in his Foreward to this book, says: “He has attempted to relate the history and analysis of contemporary ‘races’ of man to our knowledge of ancient human types, so as to fill the gap that is ordinarily left by specialists dealing with the two fields of studies as separate entities. Human Ancestry is thus an unusual, if not unique, book.”