Collections of his writings, edited by Henry Hardy and others, began appearing in 1978; there are, to date, 13 such volumes, as well as an anthology, The Proper Study of Mankind, and the first two of a projected four volumes of letters.
Part four, "The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man," is an appealing presentation on human genetic disorders.
As a teenager I was thrilled to learn that there was something called anthropology and, I read then, it was the study of mankind as if he were an animal, or as if he were part of nature.
A continuation of the author's 1993 best seller, "The Hidden Life of Dogs," by an anthropologist who leaps over parochial limits to the proper study of mankind.
The proper study of mankind is man".
Alexander Pope was always right: "The proper study of mankind is man".
'The study of mankind is man,' said Alexander Pope, and Beryl and I believe that.
Capek's literary credo was that the proper study of mankind is man.
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan," said Alexander Pope, "The proper study of mankind is Man".
Geneticists, of all scientists, have had least need to be reminded that "the proper study of mankind is man".
