W.E.A. Half-Hours

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 12

W.E.A. Half-Hours

: *Man- in the Making"

} ’ e. ‘Wrom 1VYA. Thursday, July 21 and 28,

Jy Mr:

Gilbert

Archey

MA:

. Synopses of Lectures 3 and 4 first two talks have described the evolution of the human spé‘cles’ and its subsequent division into three races under certain conditions of ‘climate and environment. ‘Whe third, ‘on Thursday, July 21, ‘will tell of. the waves of migration that have peopled Europe and formed the present . races there, Hven as environment. was the main cause of the development of: the three great races, so in Burope local conditions have contributed toward the development there of three varieties, or sub-races, with distinct bodily form and temperament. ‘Burope is populated mainly by one race,. the Caucasian, but. there. may have been a slight negroid strain in the south. It is just a question, however, as to how far the build and temperament of the southern Europedn is really due to negroid admixture or to the special Mediterranean environment. oe The last address will describe the first appearance of that special form of social organisation and degree of eulture we call civilisation. And as civilisation is generally considered to have developed on the material or economic basis of extensive grain cultivation the beginnings of agriculture will be described. | .he steadily changing climate since the ice anges again comes in here, for the earliest agriculture was practised 4n' the now desert regions to the west of the Nile: Finally the contemporary development, about 5000 years. ago, of the first three great civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia; and the Indus Valley will be described.