i 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
iary information, but only a dry bibliographic citation;* immediate
access to the two essential bits of information for any historical
inquiry—who and when. I believe that this system of referencing is
one of the few potential contributions that scientists, normally not
a very literate lot, might supply to other fields of written scholar-
ship.
A note on title: I hope that an apparently sexist title will be
taken in the intended spirit—not only as a play on Protagoras'
famous aphorism, but also as a commentary on the procedures of
biological determinists discussed in the book. They did, indeed,
study "man" (that is, white European males), regarding this group
as a standard and everybody else as something to be measured
unfavorably against it. That they mismeasured "man" underscores
the double fallacy.
*The relatively small number of truly informational footnotes can then be placed
at the bottom of the page, where they belong.