Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Edvard Westermarck
Born: November 20, 1862
Died: September 3, 1939 (aged 76)
Bio: Edvard Alexander Westermarck was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo.
Known for:
- The History of Human Marriage (1891)
- Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926)
- Ethical Relativity (1932)
- Christianity and morals (1939)