Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity (Pegasus Books, 2016), by Alexander Harcourt, professor emeritus of anthropology. In this book, Harcourt explains how the expansion of the human species around the globe and our interaction with our environment explains much about why humans differ from one region of the world to another, not only biologically, but culturally. 

Professor Harcourt obtained his degrees from the University of Cambridge, UK. Teaching, research and fieldwork has taken him to the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the National University of Rwanda at Butare, Rwanda, the Primate Research Institute of the University of Kyoto at Inuyama, Japan, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, the Karisoke Research Centre in the Virunga Volcano region of Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire, the Bwindi Forest in Uganda, and the forests of S.E. Nigeria.

His past interests and work include: vertebrate, especially primate, especially gorilla socio-ecology; functional reproductive anatomy; cooperation as a competitive strategy; and social aspects of vocal communication. Current main interests are the evolutionary biology of extinction, biogeography, conservation science, and macroecology. Most of the time, non-human primates have been the taxon that provides his database, but with his 2012 'Human Biogeography', He has become more of an anthropos logist.

View the book at Pegasus Books