About the book: 1972 / This book is about each of us and about the great humanity that we all make up together. About what we are like as people, and why we became exactly the way we are: in appearance and customs, in habits and abilities. About how it happened that people have different skin colors, and about how peoples are born and grow. History and anthropology, ethnography and psychology serve as guides on this journey through the past, present and - a little - the future of man.