Human Universals
Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Donald Brown |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Cultural anthropology |
| Publisher | McGraw Hill |
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Publication date
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1991 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 220 |
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| OCLC | 22860694 |
Human Universals is a book by Donald Brown, an American professor of anthropology (emeritus) who worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was published by McGraw Hill in 1991. Brown says human universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exception."
According to Brown, there are hundreds of universals unique to humans.
He is quoted at length by Steven Pinker in an appendix to The Blank Slate (2002), where Pinker cites some of the hundreds of universals listed by Brown. However, Pinker's universals are not unique to humans.
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