Man from the Beginning,

by Stanley A. Freed

A concise anthropological study of man and his culture from the world of primates to the life in cities today

Library Binding

First published December 1, 1967

About the author

Stanley A. Freed, a native of Ohio, took his PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957. After almost two years of fieldwork in rural India with his wife, Dr. Ruth S. Freed, and a year as a visiting staff member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Freed joined the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1960, where he has remained to the present day. He was in charge of the scientific aspects of four permanent exhibition halls and of several temporary exhibitions. He has written extensively on museums.