Identifier: evolutionofearth00barr (find matches)
Title: The evolution of the earth and its inhabitants; a series delivered before the Yale chapter of the Sigma xi during the academic year 1916-1917
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Barrell, Joseph, b. 1869 Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942 Woodruff, Lorande Loss, 1879-1947 Lull, Richard Swann, 1867- Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947
Subjects: Evolution Climatology Human beings -- Influence on nature Earth
Publisher: New Haven, Yale university press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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FIG. 37.—The distribution of civilization. From Civilization and Climate. i74 EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH such a way that the opinion of each of five groups, namelyAmericans, British, Teutonic Europeans, Latin Europeans, andAsiatics, has equal weight. The agreement of the two mapsis surprising. It indicates that at the present time the dis-tribution of climatic energy and that of civilization are almostidentical. Such differences as are discernible occur almostwholly where exact information is lacking or where the pres-ence of Europeans as colonial rulers raises the apparentstandard of civilization. This brings us to the climax of our discussion. At thebeginning of this lecture we saw that human progress, that is,the growth of civilization, depends in apparently equal measureupon inherent mental capacity, material resources, and energy.We then saw that although inherent capacity has no relationto present climatic conditions, it is closely intertwined withthose of the past. We also saw th

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