Books by Carveth Read

This volume contains the enlarged and revised 1925 second edition of The Origin of Man. The study was intended to explain the hypothesis that the human race descended from primates through a series of changes which began and were maintained by the practice of hunting in pack for animal food.

First published in 1925, as the second edition of a 1920 original, this book discusses the relationship between superstition and the development of human societies. This volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in anthropology, and the social origins of magic and animism.