Evolution and Culture (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

By Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

A unified interpretation of the evolution of species, humanity, and society This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472087754
• ISBN13: 9780472087754
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the two most important books of the 20th Century

I read this book in 1967 while I was an anthropology student at the University of Virginia. I just found it again online and ordered it. I think that this book and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus are the two most important books of the 20th Century. I thought that the attempt to use evolutionary anthropological theory to make predictions about the future course of human societies was bold and approached...