The anthropologist and humanist Ashley Montagu, who has died aged 94, was one of the most prolific writers and controversial popularisers of...
300 months ago

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....
38 months ago

Ashley Montagu, 94, an anthropologist who was a prolific writer and gifted popularizer of his wide-ranging theories and research, died Nov. 26 in Princeton, NJ.
300 months ago

Parents and teachers have been misled by the traditions and culture of the Western world about the nature of children and how they should be...
520 months ago

Dr. William B. Shockley, the Nobel Prize‐winning physicist whose views on race and intelligence have provoked wide controversy, finally got to debate his ideas...
612 months ago

Bipedalism, big-headed babies make childbirth challenging. Moms giving birth often have quite an entourage these days.
114 months ago

A California college featured a bulletin board Tuesday, 'S-Know Your Whiteness,' suggesting race has 'no scientific basis' and claiming 'whiteness' is 'about...
79 months ago

British tabloids might start this column with something like, “The case of the bigamist duke from Down Under.”But my focus is less on the...
156 months ago

Discussing the social effects and science of classifying humans. To the Editor: What should we do about “race”?
136 months ago

In 1942, the anthropologist Ashley Montagu published “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,” an influential book that argued that...
80 months ago