"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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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

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"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."

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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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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

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

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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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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."

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