La Vie des Mammifères et des Hommes Fossiles

La vie des mammiferes et des hommes fossiles, dechiffree a l'aide de l'anatomie et de la physiologie comparees de l'appareil masticateur
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La vie des mammifères et des hommes fossiles, déchiffrée à l'aide de l'anatomie et de la physiologie comparées de l'appareil masticateur

By H. Sanielevici. Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, 1926.

The title translates as "The life of mammals and fossilized humans, deciphered using comparative anatomy of the chewing organs.” This book's author, Mr. Sanielevici, believed that analysis of the processes and organs involved in chewing and digesting would explain the evolution of humans and mammals. In his ideology, ethnicity, racial diversity, and even personality are derived from historic and regional dietary trends: you are what you eat.

This book was signed by the author, Henry (Henric) Sanielevici (1875-1951). He was a Romanian journalist and critic, known for his eccentric, fluid, and controversial political leanings: Marxist, racist, populist, anti-Nazi. His limited education and experience in the sciences did not deter him from publishing “scholarly” dissertations on anthropology, psychology, and evolution, based more on his philosophy “du jour” than on research or fact.

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