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Ellsworth Huntington

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


— Ellsworth Huntington


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The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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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.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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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.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.


— Ellsworth Huntington


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Did you know about Ellsworth Huntington?

1943) pp. 365-376in JSTOR
Martin Geoffrey J. 1924)
"Climatic Change and Agricultural Exhaustion as Elements in the Fall of Rome" Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol.

He served as Presidents of the Ecological Society of America in 1917 the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and the President of the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society from 1934 to 1938. He taught at Euphrates College Turkey (1897–1901); accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to central Asia; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907). He was on the original standing committee of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles from 1941.

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