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A Short Biography of Ashley Montagu

Author Name:

Ashley Montagu

Born As:

Israel Ehrenberg

Other Names:

Born:

28 Jun 1905

Died:

26 Nov 1999




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Anthropologist and social biologist                          
Selected Works:

Life Before Birth
Touching: The Human Significance of The Skin - 1971
On Being Human
The Nature of Human Aggression
The Natural Superiority of Women
Growing Young
Living and Loving
The Human Connection
The Peace of The World
Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race - 1942
Human Evolution
The Elephant Man
Anthropology and Human Nature
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity. - 1942
The Cultured Man
Man: The first Million Years

Montagu wrote the Foreword and Bibliography of the 1955 edition of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Petr Kropotkin, and in 1956, he edited Toynbee and History: Critical Essays and Reviews, 1956 Cloth, Boston: a critique of Arnold J. Toynbee's seminal A Study of History.

He is co-author with Floyd Matson of The Human Connection and The Dehumanization of Man. He is the writer and director of the film One World or None, described as one of the best documentaries ever made.                          
                          
                          
He later changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu" and went by "Ashley Montagu" after moving to the United States.