Cover of the first edition
|Genre||Non-fiction (Cultural anthropology)|
|Media type||Print (Cloth)|
Human Universals is a book by Donald Brown, an American professor of anthropology (emeritus) who worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was published by McGraw Hill in 1991. Brown says human universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exception."
Those unique to humans
He is quoted at length by Steven Pinker in an appendix to The Blank Slate, where Pinker cites some of the hundreds of universals listed by Brown. However, Pinker's universals are not unique to humans.
- Brown, Donald E. (1991). Human Universals. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-87722-841-8.
- As quoted by Pinker
- George P. Murdock in Linton, The Science of Man in the World Crisis (1945)
- Murdock's concepts were updated by Donald E. Brown, Human Universals (1991)
- Human Universals. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
- List of Universals from the book.
- Chapter by Brown
- Introduction to Human Universals and Methods of research by Donald E. Brown
- Humans share same characteristics - Paper, University of British Columbia
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