The anthropologist and humanist Ashley Montagu, who has died aged 94, was one of the most prolific writers and controversial popularisers of...
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. by ME Ashley Montagu. With a foreword by Aldous Huxley. New York, Columbia University Press, 1945. 304 pp. $3....
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Ashley Montagu, 94, an anthropologist who was a prolific writer and gifted popularizer of his wide-ranging theories and research, died Nov.
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