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John Reader


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Anthropology


An author and photojournalist with more than forty years' professional experience. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at U.C.L. ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,366 ratings · 243 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
Africa: A Biography of the ...
4.17 avg rating — 1,673 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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Potato: A History of the Pr...
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Cities
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Missing Links: In Search of...
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Man on Earth: A Celebration...
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Rise of Life: First 3.5 Bil...
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Kilimanjaro
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Quotes by John Reader

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”
― John Reader, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
tags: bias, ego
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“Once established for a few generations, civilization might seem durable enough to last forever. But the skin of enlightened self-interest is very delicate, easily eroded, and the human capacity for unspeakable barbarity lies just beneath its surface.”
― John Reader, Africa: A Biography of the Continent
tags: africa, barbarism, civilization
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“Certainly the anonymous author of a long article in The Quarterly Review was lifted to heights of eloquence by the scale and complexities of simply feeding the city:”
― John Reader, Cities
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