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During the past fifty years the emphasis has been of the likeness, common features and equality of races. Yet interracial tensions and hostilities persist today as never before. Race by Dr. John R. Baker deals in an objective manner and informative way with the "ethnic problem"-what is meant by "race," whether race can be related to intelligence, and whether or not one race can be considered "superior" to another. Written with a thoroughness uncharacteristic in the usual treatment of race, Race, is the only book that embraces history, biology, paleontology, the ancestry of man, his ascent to civilization, and the psychology of race.
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About the Author:
Dr. John R. Baker was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and, eventually, Emeritus Reader in Cytology at Oxford University, England, where he was a Professional Fellow of New College and president of the Royal Microscopical Society. He was the author of nine previously published books on biological subjects, including The Principles of Biological Microtechnique.
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"No book known to me tries to encompass everything relevant to the idea of race with such honesty . . . The idea of race and raciality has been systematically depreciated for political or genuinely humanitarian reasons, and it was high time that someone wrote about race as Baker does, i.e. in the spirit of a one-man Royal Commission." -- Sir Peter Medawar, O.M., F.R.S., Nobel laureate
"A most impressive display of profound scholarship and vast erudition of every main aspect of this important topic. Recent studies of racial differences in cognitive and behavioral characteristics have generally overlooked or belittled the biological, anatomical, physiological, and evolutionary lines of evidence which are highly germane to this discussion. Baker provides the essential basis upon which any objective, rational, and scientific discussion of racial differences must proceed." -- Arthur R. Jensen, University of California
"With Professor Baker's book we have at last a compendium of biological facts about the various groups of men-a compendium which can provide a factual basis for discussions of racial differences. -- Ren Dubos, Rockefeller University
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- PublisherNatl Vanguard Books
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0936396040
- ISBN 13 9780936396040
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages643
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