Research Catalog

Title

Season of birth; its relation to human abilities [by] Ellsworth Huntington ...

Author

Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947.

Publication

New York, J. Wiley & Sons Inc.; London, Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1938.

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Details

Description

vii, 473 pages illustrations

Subject

• Reproduction > Statistics
• Population > Statistics
• Weather > Psychological aspects
• Weather > Physiological effect
• Seasons
• Ability
• Population
• Statistics
• Weather
• Human beings > Effect of climate on
• Population
• Reproduction
• Statistics as Topic
• Weather
• Seasons
• Aptitude
• population
• weather
• demographics
• statistics
• Statistics
• Human beings > Effect of climate on
• Ability
• Weather > Physiological effect
• Weather > Psychological aspects
• Reproduction > Statistics
• Population > Statistics

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 453-458.

Contents

1. Season of birth -- 2. The basic animal rhythm: Belgium -- 3. Fasts, feasts, and human fallibility: Russia -- 4. Climatic extremes and migration: Japan and Massachusetts -- 5. Secular changes in seasons of birth -- 6. American variation in season of birth -- 7. Other geographical variations -- 8. Length of life -- 9. Sex, season and climate -- 10. Sex ratios, race, and birth rank -- 11. Sex ratios and cultural environment -- 12. Survival and inheritance -- 13. Leadership, birth rank, and season of birth -- 14. Genius and season -- 15. A test by countries -- 16. Temperature, health and genius -- 17. The abnormal and the insane -- 18. The evolution of homo sapiens -- 19. The seasons and human progress. Appendix A. Contributors of statistical material. Appendix B. Bibliography.

LCCN

38027163

OCLC

• ocm00180568
• 180568
• SCSB-418642

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library