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Ashley Montagu

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Noun1.Ashley MontaguAshley Montagu - United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-)


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The Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide, named for Professor Ashley Montagu, a globally recognized scientist, scholar, humanist, and author, was drawn up in 1996.
Anthropologist Ashley Montagu (1966) observed that cooperation is a key characteristic essential for survival over the course of human history, and that without the ability to interact and problem-solve with others, individuals in early societies would not have been able to survive.
Ashley Montagu (anthropologist): "The prolonged period of infant dependency produces interactive behavior of a kind which in the first two years or so of the child's life determines the primary pattern of his subsequent social development.
 
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