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The origin of man and of his superstitions

Read, Carveth, b. 1848 · 1920 · Cambridge, The University press · 1 picture

Carveth Read's 1920 study of human evolution, magic and totemism, issued by Cambridge University Press for anthropologists and students of comparative psychology. Its one illustration is a hand-lettered line diagram on a ruled grid, with branching curves labelled Primate Stem, Great Anthropoids and Hominidae \u2014 usable as a plain evolutionary tree, a chart armature, or a specimen of handwritten scientific labelling.

Human beings · Superstition · Magic · Animism · Totemism

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