"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."

Beginning, Environment, Race

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"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."

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"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."

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"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."

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"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

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"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."

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"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

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"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

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"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."

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