Download or read book Western Civilization in Biological Perspective written by Stephen Vickers Boyden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the patterns of interplay between the biological and cultural processes in human affairs, beginning with the emergence in evolution of "homo sapiens" and carries his survey through the early farming and urban phases of human existence up to the present day.