ABSTRACT

Anthropology aims, above all, to look at humans as we exist, not broken apart into psychology, biology, political science, religious studies, and so on. Our true history through millions of years of primate species followed by the development of hominids made us what we are. What we humans share, our physical needs and the societal relationships through which they are met, are far more important than the variations in behavior and beliefs our large and complex, fertile brains have devised. Particularly in the twenty-first-century world of instant global communications and supranational economic and political structures, we humans must look beyond the flags to the reality of one species spread throughout Planet Earth.